![]() Using the M1A2 Abrams as a baseline, it will demonstrate 50% reduced crew workload, 40% reduced GVW, 20% increase in fuel economy, and a 40% increase in cross-country speed, and leap ahead lethality. Leap-ahead lethality in vehicles 50 percent lighter is required to employ strategic mobility throughout the AAN vision. The Future Combat System (FCS) Integrated TD (2000-06) will demonstrate the maturity of the FCS candidate's revolutionary technologies in the vehicle configuration required for operation in the Army After Next. Its light weight increases strategic deployability by allowing two to three vehicles per C-5 cargo plane and increasing the number of vehicles that can be transported by ship, rail or highway. Increased cross country mobility could be provided by an electric drive transmission and semi-active suspension which would enable the vehicle to obtain speeds of about 45 miles per hour. Eighty smoke grenade launchers are buried under the skin of the turret armor. The armor will be supplemented by signature management, hit avoidance and active protection. The hull flanks and turret front and flanks have electromagnetic armor. Other survivability technologies include a hull front with 40 inches of armor that uses advanced passive with integral reactive armor for large caliber kinetic energy and chemical energy protection. At its maximum height, the tank has a 19-inch ground clearance equal to the M1 fleet. The height can be lowered to 64 inches or raised to 79 inches. Variable height suspension presents a lower, smaller target and makes the tank more survivable. A high pressure, 120mm gun (XM291) is mounted on the turret. ![]() ![]() Hit avoidance sensors are mounted in the four corners of the turret. Target acquisition sensors are the gunner's primary sight, a panoramic sight and an auxiliary sight. The crew receives information from on-board target acquisition and hit avoidance sensors. The US Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's future land combat system vehicle is a 40-ton concept based on evolutionary tank design and technology which pushes the two-person crew down and forward into the hull with a remote turret. The new conception of the Future Combat Systems as a distributed battlefield system of systems represents a rather dramatic departure from the previous concept of the Future Combat System which was focused on a 40-ton tank. ![]()
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