Todd South
As the Army examines its armor formations, it wants to avoid placing them in a potential stalemate, similar to what is being seen in the Russia-Ukraine War.
To avoid that fate, armor brigades are receiving new equipment and experimenting with different formations as part of the service’s “Transforming in Contact” initiative, first launched in 2024 with infantry brigades.
The Army’s “Transforming in Contact,” or TIC, concept seeks to deliver new equipment — such as Infantry Squad Vehicles, drones, counter-drone equipment and increased electromagnetic warfare capabilities — to operational units as they prepare for major training events and deployments.
Under TIC 2.0, the Army is shifting its focus to Armor Brigade Combat Teams and division-level assets.
“Ukraine has us going back to first principles, such as, ”Why do we need armor?’” said Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor, head of the 1st Armored Division.
Armor remains vital on the battlefield because it provides mobile protected firepower to penetrate prepared defenses, seize and hold ground, and dislocate enemy combined arms, Curtis said at September’s Maneuver Warfighter Conference at Fort Benning, Georgia.
New areas to adapt include robotics and drones.
That includes sensing and striking at the company level using first-person-view drones under armor, layered drone countermeasures, embedded electronic warfare and robotic breaching.
The 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team is scheduled to go to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, in November. There, soldiers will test the new equipment and formations they’ve been experimenting with, Feltey told Army Times in an interview.
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