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    https://www.gd.com/Articles/2020/10/08/gd-at-ausa-2020
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    https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/10/01/aerovironment-debuts-bigger-anti-armor-loitering-missile/ Building on its Switchblade 300 loitering missile legacy with the U.S. Army, AeroVironment is rolling out with a family of capabilities to include its new Switchblade 600, a larger version suited to go up against armored targets at greater ranges in denied and degraded environments. - The new version can fly for 40 minutes with a range of over 40 kilometers. The missile has an over 150 miles per hour dash speed and an onboard anti-armor warhead designed to take out armored vehicles without the need for external intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and fires assets. The new system comes with a touchscreen tablet-based fire control system with an option to pilot the vehicle manually or autonomously. The missile is secured through onboard encrypted data links and Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module GPS. The Switchblade 600 is also equipped with a patented wave-off capability where operators can abort missions at any time and recommit.
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    https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2367105/ General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $1,219,170,958 hybrid (cost-no-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and fixed-price-incentive) contract to produce, test and deliver Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) systems. One bid was solicited with one bid received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-20-D-0039). If my napkin math is accurate this would be enough for 144 vehicles.
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    https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/army-robots-hunt-tanks-in-project-convergence/ [quote]A pair of unprepossessing robots, looking more like militarized golf carts than Terminators, trundled across the Yuma Desert, part of the Army’s Project Convergence exercise on future warfare. Like human troops, the machines took turns covering each other as they advanced. One robot would find a safe spot, stop, and launch the tethered mini-drone it carried to look over the next ridgeline while the other bot moved forward; then they’d switch off. Their objective: a group of buildings on the Army’s Yuma Proving Ground, a simulated town for urban combat training. As one robot held back to relay communications to its distant human overseers, the other moved into the town – and spotted “enemy” forces. With human approval, the robot opened fire. Then the robot’s onboard Aided Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms identified another enemy, a T-72 tank. But this target was too far away for the robot’s built-in weapons to reach. So the bot uploaded the targeting data to the tactical network and – again, with human approval – called in artillery support.[/quote]
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    Lets keep the signal to noise ratio positive.
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    Option B, read the last decades worth of debate then come back.
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    That concept art looks familiar...
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    Assuming the barrel movement is in fact indicative of a reload, the reloading method you describe is the equivalent of a human loader holding the next round to be loaded in their lap.
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    Kind of sad to see the country that invented the modern tank squander away its tank fleet.
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    U.S. ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT COMMAND – GROUND VEHICLE SYSTEMS CENTER Combat Vehicle Electrification Overview and Motivation - Kevin Boice Combat Vehicle Energy Storage Combat Vehicle Electrification Overview and Motivation - Joshua Tylenda Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies Combat Vehicle Power Generation Power Electronics and Architecture
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    https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/08/10/oshkosh-is-tinkering-with-a-uniquely-british-jltv/
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    The turret as depicted doesn't leave much room for ammunition in the bustle either.
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    probably a TTB style autoloader in the basket
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    Raytheon and Rafale are setting up a joint venture to produce Iron Dome in the states. https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/08/03/raytheon-and-rafael-to-build-iron-dome-in-us/
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    Another possibility is the two man crew efforts.
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    Found by @Willy Brandt
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    https://livepictureevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/08-MS2-Industry-Day-2020_v2.pdf
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    Eurosatory 1996
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    I wouldn't get too caught up on concept art, remember the stuff for the T-14?
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    For me I wonder if the 31 round count reported earlier was for the 130mm gun instead of the 120mm.
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    Air Power Australia is neither an official source or from 2020.
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