The Army’s future main battle tank will need to control unmanned platforms, network target data with stealth fighter jets, destroy enemy vehicles with precision-guided ammunition, and process massive amounts of data in seconds.
A new sixty-ton, fuel-efficient, hybrid-electric main battle tank—armed with next-generation ammunition and an unmanned turret—has blasted onto the scene as a “demonstrator” offering for the U.S. Army. The AbramsX, recently unveiled by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) at the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Symposium, arrives just as the Army surges forward with analysis regarding the future of heavy armor.
