Robot Hover Tanks With Ray Guns? Army Looks To Replace M1

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 Robot Hover Tanks With Ray Guns? Army Looks To Replace M1
“It doesn’t have to be a tank, it just has to be decisive and lethal," Brig. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman answered.

"If that is run by a flux capacitor, hovers, and has a ray gun -- and we can make it run at a reasonable cost -- we’ll look at it."
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on October 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM


AUSA: By 2023, the Army will decide whether or not to move ahead with a replacement for the M1 Abrams heavy tank. “Anything’s on the table,” said the service’s director for armored vehicle modernization.

Define “anything,” I asked. Are we talking Imperial Walkers from Star Wars? Little robots carrying big missiles?
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. photo

“It doesn’t have to be a tank, it just has to be decisive and lethal,” Brig. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman answered. “If that is run by a flux capacitor, hovers, and has a ray gun — and we can make it run at a reasonable cost — we’ll look at it.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2018/10/robot-hover-tanks-with-ray-guns-army-looks-to-replace-m1/