![]() Unlike armored vehicles and tanks now on the battlefield, the light tank here has no bells and whistles yet. Next to the tank, a flat-screen television played grainy two-decade-old video clips. “It’s emerging again with the changing world that we live in.” The Army suspended work on a similar project in the mid-1990s, “but the need really remains,” Bazaz said. The Army does not a formal requirement yet for what it calls a mobile protected firepower unit, but it could soon, prompting BAE to bring the unit to the Association of the U.S. Now Army brass is considering a fleet of lighter, more agile vehicles that could reach the battlefield faster, from the sky instead of from ships. “The intent of what we have out here is a conversation starter,” said Deepak Bazaz, BAE Systems’ director of New and Amphibious Vehicles, standing by his company’s M8 Armored Gun System.Īrmy leaders of yesteryear envisioned a tank that could be dropped onto the battlefield by a C-130 cargo plane. That’s how a small tank, built and tested in the 1990s, found its way back to the exhibit hall at the largest military trade show in the United States. ![]() But some old ideas are being revived as well. As the Army steps up the complexity of its combat training, companies are looking at new, futuristic arms tailored for high-end war with Russia and China.
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