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Army Copes With ‘Lost Generations’ Of Combat Vehicle Modernization

Army Copes With ‘Lost Generations’ Of Combat Vehicle Modernization
M1A1 Abrams tank of Bravo Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, USMC Reserves, preparing for a live fire exercise at Yakima Training Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. (U.S. Army photo by Sidney Lee, Enterprise Multimedia Center, JBLM.)

The Army has missed out on “generations” of combat vehicle modernization because of unrealistic expectations and fantastic requirements for technologies that either did not yet exist or were too expensive.An inability to align the service’s needs with the schedule and budget it had resulted in infamous failures like Future Combat Systems and the Ground Combat vehicle that churned through billions of dollars before being unceremoniously canceled.“In terms of technology, the biggest failure we have is we chase things we can’t…

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