U.S. Army Abrams Tank & Future Robot Tanks Could Fight Together for Decades

Video Above: Soldiers Controlling Robot Tanks

*A Warrior Maven top story of 2021, Republished for Viewer Interest*

By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

(Washington, D.C.) Robots, Optionally-Manned Tanks, highly networked lightweight armored vehicles and armed reconnaissance ground drones are all capturing massive amounts of attention from Army futurists and weapons developers .. for understandable and appropriate reasons.

Abrams Tank Modernization

Yet meanwhile, an interesting and often under-recognized fact is concurrently operating beneath the radar, the apparent reality that the Abrams tank is going nowhere. 

Instead, the much upgraded and changed 1980s-era platform is powering along with an ambitious and long-term modernization plan, an approach which routinely focuses upon the Abrams as a key platform for continued innovation and technological breakthrough in the areas of command and control, AI, manned-unmanned teaming and heavy weapons attack.

The Army continues to test weapons systems, refine tactics, explore new technologies and transit rigorous terrain with the Abrams tank to prepare the platform for major mechanized great power warfare.