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Well, call me just one of these guys that are against armed drones. I don't like idea that unmanned machine kill people, it allready created more problems than good.

Well, robots are usefull, but IMHO we should not go further than engineer support drones and logistic drones. Armed drones are something that should be banned worldwide.

I would avoid unmanned system, me and many more people have very low faith in them as trully combat effective, especially on land. Drones does not feel such thing as loyalty, patriotism, duty, they are merely expandable machines that can be controlled by everyone. In this sense it is easy to...

Think how much lower will be crew situational awareness, and how tank commander will be overloaded with his duties. 3 man crew is minimum as I said.

Possible but not efficent enough, 3 crew members is minimum. Americans in XM1202 MCS developed for FCS program had to be crewed by 2 people like the rest vehicles based on MGV universal combat platform. However there were doubts if in such configuration vehicle will be efficent, it was advised...

This Leopard 2 was only test bed, it ended in some museum. It is difficult to put 140mm or bigger gun in to currently used designs.

The main problem is to convince top army officers and politicians to spend more money for more... unconventional and probably more costly design solutions and that Army need such vehicle. Look at NATO vs Soviet Union development race, in the end they came up with same or similiar design...

Armata project is not new idea of heavy and medium UCP. In fact first such project was US.Army Armored Systems Modernisation (ASM) program. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/1992/Jun/92Jun_Boelke.pdf Here is PDF (someones work, some offiers or something like that) that wrote some...

How next generation MBT should look like? Well to answer this we need to ask ourselfs how to solve some key problems in AFV design. 1) How to reduce weight without decreasing AFV protection? 2) How to increase vehicle and crew survivability? 3) How to reduce logistical stress, ease maintnance...