Future main battle tank

When it was first conceived, the U.S. Army's Future Combat System (FCS) was envisaged as a new main battle tank that would use revolutionary technologies to be lighter, faster, more survivable and more lethal than the current M1 Abrams family of main battle tanks (MBTs).

Although the FCS then evolved into a system of systems that were to incorporate wide variety of different vehicles and intelligence platforms merged into a network centric system, the concept of fielding a new...