What is the future of the tank? | The Economist
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as posted by the channelWhat is the future of the tank in the age of AI warfare?
The chief of the German army, Lieutenant General Christian Freuding, tells Shashank Joshi, our host of Inside Defence, that the tank must become a “mothership” for unmanned systems. The harder problem, he argues, is data: armies once lacked information, now they are overwhelmed by it.
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