What happens in 2025? / new tactics- new technologies

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The photo above the "OW5-A10" Laser Mengshi caption my first reaction was " that's a lot of Tubas"

[MarkSheppard]

China also unveiled the new Type 100 Tank and Type 100 Support Tank.

Way to keep things non-confusing guys. They're going down the same path as the Japanese/US in WW2 with everything all the same designation.

It appears that the Type 100 is the Chinese Armata clone; albeit it's actually going to be put into production

Things are very vague here, but both Type 100s appear to have "augmented reality" headsets for the crew(s) -- i.e. something like the F-35 helmet, but for ground vehicles.

The Type 100 Support Tank appears to have drone launch cells; enabling it to launch it's own drones for fire support; along with dedicated crew members to control said drones.

Both may or may not have a hybrid powertrain, enabling "silent" battery only running for limited periods of time.

EDIT: Reason I'm putting them here; is that both represent "new" ideas -- integration of UAVs with AFVs, may or may not have unmanned turrets, etc; fitting the thread's theme of "new technologies", etc.

Photos of the two:



Type 100 Tank

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Type 100 [Fire] Support Tank (FSV?)

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You can see the Type 100 Tank up front, with the Type 100 FSV behind them, as well as the drones on the back of the Type 100 FSV:



Closeup of the drone carriage on the Type 100 FSV:



Another photo of the Type 100 FSV:



Top and rear of the Type 100 FSV as they were being railed into Beijing earlier this week:

[MarkSheppard]

Funnily enough these dropped a MONTH ago around August 15 on Twitter; looks like they were genuine:

[MarkSheppard]

The Chinese also displayed a large amount of unmanned vehicles -- air, sea, submarines, ground.





Longer term; this has interesting implications for "serious" scenarios -- IOW; for a long time, it's been really hard for anyone who isn't NATO (or the US) to make headway against a determined air defense network.

The near term (next 15~ years) future got interesting; since it's now plausible second world nations like say....Venezuela could actually credibly operate these UAVs; and they'd have a decent chance of penetrating modern air defenses and actually striking their targets -- IOW; stealthy UCAVs striking US troops along the FEBA in the next war we fight is plausible.