The M1E3 pre-prototype has been unveiled:
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This seems like a really early prototype. For example, the Army has repeatedly mentioned a hybrid drivetrain yet this has a traditional diesel engine. I am guessing the turret is unmanned as it looks smaller, but it is also missing things like smoke launchers, APS and other attachments you normally see on US tanks.
So I think this is really just a prototype to test an auto-loader based three (?) man crew set-up with maybe some other features (you can see it has some sort of camera based vision system).
Looks DPRK-ish. Also if that bustle has the autoloader like that, seems like it'd be easy prey for drones, much like the original Abrams but bigger.
So the new FFG is just a coast guard cutter with 8x Hellfire AShMs bolted on the back? Pretty much a LCS rehash?
If it didn't work the first time...
If the turret is unmanned, why keep the fume extractor on the barrel?
Look strange, Is it unmanned ? No classis hatches at all.
If they are sliding hatches at the front, these will get easily jammed from damages and obstacles.
Honestly, if I had to guess they just took what they had a stuck it on there for the time being. Eventually that will get removed as they move further through the testing phase.
Seriously lmao. And that's not a compliment.
But obviously far too early to make any conclusions.
