Leveraging Technology and Tank Design Characteristics for 2020 Security Landscape
Abstract
The role of a future tank or Future Combat Vehicle (FCV) will change as the future strategic security landscape evolves. The United States future strategic security landscape will evolve due to increasing external dynamic forces that will impact the world in profound ways: information age explosion, economic globalization, evolving nation states, shifting strategic alliances, exponential technology growth in all sciences, and emerging land powers. To meet this challenging future security landscape, the Army must adopt new warfighting concepts and leverage technology to fundamentally change how it prosecutes land warfare: using precision munitions, multisensor arrays, information dominance, advanced materials, hybrid engine designs, and lighter more deployable platforms that allow for quick entry anywhere in the world. Future adversaries will be at different technological levels than U.S. forces, but will have capabilities that could and will challenge our ability to wage successful land power campaigns. The design revolution for a future tank or FCV will exploit leap-ahead technologies that will transform this platform from the ground up to become more strategically relevant, dominant, and lethal across the spectrum of crisis. This paper will examine the dynamics of a new strategic security environment where future warfighting concepts require more stringent attributes for a Future Combat Systems (FCV) or tank that predominately must be more expeditionary in order to achieve strategic dominance across the breadth of any opponents battlespace.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 02, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA378016
Entities
People
- Mark T. Doody
Organizations
- United States Army War College