On the 3rd, the US military's future chariot family, the appearance is fully exposed!
The U.S. military announced the appearance concept map of this "Future Combat Vehicle" family!
The combat vehicle series that the U.S. Army is building represents the future technical level of ground platform for land warfare. It will cover a series of autonomous and robotic technologies to prepare for the future high-tech land battlefield.
From the concept map, this family includes at least three basic models: light tanks (left), light armed reconnaissance vehicles (middle), and infantry fighting vehicles.
The US Army project is called "Next Generation Combat Vehicle" (NGCV), and its ultimate goal is to strive to improve the survivability and lethality of the US Army combat platform.
These carrying and combat ground tool platforms include a series of newly designed manned and unmanned platforms, some platforms do not require personnel to operate internally. The US Army stated that this "future combat vehicle" family will have advanced combat capabilities to ensure that it will continue to "defeat various opponents" in the coming decades or even longer.
After a period of planning, technical discussion and publicity, the US Army Combat Capability Development Command finally released a computer drawing that revealed the concept of "Future Combat Vehicle" (top).
This family is expected to also include UAVs carried by tanks to conduct more effective reconnaissance of the battlefield from the air. The tanks in the family must also cooperate with various tanks, such as self-propelled howitzers, self-propelled mortars, missile launch vehicles, and so on.
This new combat vehicle series family integrates a variety of future combat platforms. Each platform will have similar terminal intelligent information collection and processing capabilities. By determining its own geographic location, autonomous navigation and using highly flexible information networks, the future US Army ground combat vehicle formation can achieve "semi-independent" operations. , And at the same time conduct cross-domain maneuvering and combat competition with powerful opponents of peer-to-peer technology.
In the future short-range direct or indirect ground platform formations, the US military units equipped with the NGCV vehicle family are very likely to deal with a large number of complex various types in the wild or urban terrain with a rich variety of personnel and buildings. Kind of goal.
According to the plan, the manned and robotic ground vehicles in this family need to ensure that American soldiers on the front line are in a favorable position in close combat as much as possible, and to ensure that they are in a favorable position with other services and others. The platform carries out joint weapon maneuvers and firepower strikes, and it also possesses decisive lethality.
The U.S. military also emphasized that the various indicators of NGCV must exceed the capabilities of current active equipment and at the same time exceed the peer-to-peer combat system of similar potential enemies.
The U.S. Army expects that the new robotic intelligence technology will help soldiers in two ways: It eliminates the need for soldiers to perform mechanical repetitive operations in daily, dangerous or repetitive tasks, and can semi-self-automated operations. Soldiers only need to provide With the necessary commands, the relevant tanks can complete a large number of tedious and simple operations required to complete the commands, such as driving the vehicle, finding and tracking targets, understanding various necessary parameters such as its own ammunition and fuel, and exchanging combat information with the outside world.
crews will be equipped with advanced human-computer interaction equipment to complete various combat operations more effectively.
Secondly, the new tanks of this family rely on a new level of informatization and firepower to increase the distance between soldiers and potential threats, which can greatly improve safety. Soldiers can detect and attack enemy targets at a greater distance than they are now, and keep themselves out of the enemy's firepower range as much as possible.
In addition, a high degree of automation can increase the logistics support workload of this family of vehicles. For example, two soldiers can operate a convoy composed of multiple tanks of different models, and even the most advanced tanks currently require at least two soldiers to operate each. This allows more soldiers to perform other more valuable tasks, such as observing and monitoring a broader battlefield, studying and judging the nature of the targetAnd the degree of threat, even more rest time, etc. The
family will also be highly versatile, and its basic chassis will directly support unmanned or manned operations without major modifications. At the same time, it can also develop a variety of variants such as tanks and infantry fighting vehicles with a modular approach.
In terms of protection, the NGCV family will provide flexible layered protection for its diversified vehicles according to specific needs.
In order to reduce the weight as much as possible, NGCV will inevitably use a new modern explosive reactive armor (ERA). The working principle of the new generation of reactive armor will be significantly different from that of the current model. The new modern armor component design of the family will more effectively integrate light-weight basic armor and reactive armor, and through flexible combinations, provide different protection levels for light tanks or infantry combat vehicles in the family.
One big question about this family is, will the main battle tank appear in this family? Because the design requirements of main battle tanks are significantly different from those of infantry fighting vehicles and other vehicles, it is very difficult to include main battle tanks in the family. But if the US Army is convinced that its new-generation vehicle family can provide adequate protection capabilities, it seems that there are no insurmountable restrictions in terms of mobility, firepower deployment, and information capabilities.
In the concept, the reactive armor of this family includes a V-shaped section box with the main blasting module installed at an angle. At its most basic level, it can defend against RPG rocket attacks. The new reactive armor is specifically designed to eliminate or reduce damage to adjacent reactive armor modules, so that while one module detonates and destroys incoming ammunition, it is guaranteed that a neighboring piece can still resist the ammunition that may come later.
The new generation of combat vehicle family of the US Army, originally planned for the M2 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicle family. Now this plan may include the replacement of some of the M1 family main battle tanks.
The U.S. Army hopes to obtain the first batch of new tanks from 2026 to better gain an advantage in the future combat environment.
