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Their use could also reduce the vehicles heat signature making them harder to detect

electric drive systems that are smaller, lighter and more efficient than traditional fossil fuel engines.

stealth technologies that make vehicles harder to locate, target and destroy.

active protection systems that can destroy incoming weapons fire reduce the need for heavy armour, allowing lighter weight vehicles to be developed.

Modern technologies mean that future armoured vehicles could be very different from the heavy tracked vehicles in service today.

As new technologies change the face of modern warfare, what does the future hold for tanks? Do they have a role on the battlefield of the future? Experts from the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ( Dstl) are looking at what the future holds not just for tanks but for all armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs).

Although the results of the attack were mixed, it revealed the potentially decisive role of tanks on the modern battlefield.Įver since 1916, armoured vehicles have been a key part of modern armies and their design has been evolutionary, not revolutionary. In an effort to break the stalemate on the Somme, the British attacked the positions of the German 28th Reserve Infantry Regiment at Flers–Courcelette with 32 tanks.