“It may not look like the ‘heavy’ armor on a tank, but it will be armor nonetheless,” Schoenfeld said. If it takes a hit, the arms might be made of materials built to deflect those strikes from the center, where the valuable components that control, communicate or explode, reside.Īll of these advances may not look like the diesel-driven behemoths of the battlefield today, but at their core, they’ll do what armor has always done - protect soldiers while delivering firepower. While the military will likely keep a 'man in the loop' in lethal situations for the foreseeable future, robots could share a human tank crews. Say this robot could both roll and crawl around the terrain. Robotics is another field that will benefit tanks.
Schoenfeld painted a picture: imagine a robot that looks like the coronavirus, a central ball or sphere with many “arms” protruding from it. Some future robot armor could even have materials that allow bullets to pass through.
December 2022 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) have been around for just over 100 years and during that period they have been continuously evolving with improved firepower, survivability, and mobility. “If that material could stretch without limit, the armor would be much lighter and much more flexible.” Future Main Battle Tanks Christopher F Foss and Mark Cazalet 7. “Think about the fact that body armor does not just stop a bullet but must do so with limited deformation and limited mortality for the human in the rear,” Schoenfeld said.
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