The U.S. Army's Latest Armored Vehicle Could Have a Game Changing Upgrade

For the last century, the armored vehicles that have trundled onto mine-laden battlefields have all faced the same inherent trade-off: A M1A2 Abrams tank crew can withstand blast after blast while surrounded by depleted uranium mesh-reinforced composite armor, but what they gain in protection they sacrifice in visibility. A small group of Army engineers is working overtime to make this unfortunate fact of armored warfare an artifact of the past. The Army is currently testing a next-generation video-display system designed to offer “complete visibility” to a buttoned-up crew by integrating the video and sensor feeds from individual operator stations into a single, unified display, the branch announced on Oct. 27.

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