Kris Osborn
Faster, lighter, more fuel efficient, AI-enabled, built for manned-unmanned teaming and armed with an entire generation of new weapons….are merely a few of the attributes woven into the U.S. Army’s just released M1E3 pre-prototype tank.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George oversaw the service’s unveiling of an early prototype of the new tank, an effort which appears as an ambitious and potentially very promising effort to merge high-powered anti-armor lethality with range, agility, less weight, drone-controlling technology and a suite of advanced networking technologies. The question has always been that reducing armor weight to gain speed and mobility may decrease the tank’s overall survivability, something which may no longer be the case. Details regarding survivability elements of the new tank are not likely to be available for security reasons, yet it is a reasonable assumption that Army weapons developers have incorporated lessons learned from Ukraine and made adaptations to enhance mobility and expeditionary operations without compromising survivability.
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