Tanks have long been susceptible to soldier-carried weapons like bazookas and recoilless rifles, as well as improvised explosives such as the anti-tank ' sticky bombs' seen in the film 'Saving Private Ryan.' Tanks are going to move, over time, into more of a mopping-up role. It's their job to punch through enemy positions so infantry can flood in and hold the newly gained ground. Tanks have ruled land warfare for more than 80 years. 'An infantry that is determined to fight is now super-empowered by having things like a huge number of point-and-shoot disposable anti-tank rockets,' Edward Luttwak, a military strategist who consults for governments around the world, told Insider. Soldiers are using charred suburban landscape to ambush tanks with a new generation of fire-and-forget weapons that makes tank-killing unsettlingly simple, even in the hands of a volunteer. The emerging evidence of tanks' tactical weakness is 'striking,' as one expert put it, and it has opened up a debate about whether tanks might be on their way to joining chariots and mounted cavalry in the boneyard of military history.Ĭheap, low-flying drones are striking tanks from above. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin examines the inside of a T-90AM battle tank, in 2011. According to the Army, the event paired soldiers “with a team of industrial designers and Subject Matter Experts” to explore topics “from crew size to unmanned and autonomous considerations.” The team also “explored levels of desired lethality, mobility, and survivability applied to a number of concept platforms.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center at Detroit Arsenal. The event, a three-day workshop, was held in early October at the U.S. The Army plans to make a decision about if and how to replace the Abrams in 2023. The images seem to depict at least three concept tanks, including one behemoth that dwarfs the 70-ton Abrams. Army workshop show a very rough idea of a possible replacement for the long-serving M1 Abrams tank. The new Optionally Manned Tank will be able to operate crewed or uncrewed on the future battlefield.

Concept photos are blurred, but we can get an idea of the rough shape of the vehicles.Army workshop hold clues to what a replacement for the U.S.

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