The new main battle tank is in a concept development phase between the German and French governments and industry. The concept development phase should be completed by 2017.

Germany is Europe’s leading country for tank manufacture and until this month was committed to the Franco-German Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) which included tanks and other vehicles. Earlier this ...

A Tank is Born The MBT-70 was a from-scratch design. Rather than an incremental improvement on existing West German or American designs, designers started totally fresh.

Britain has been using the Challenger 2 main battle tank (MBT) since it was first introduced in the 1990s. Plans to upgrade the U.K.'s fleet of MBTs in the early 2000s, but issues arose, and the ...

A Tank is Born The MBT-70 was a from-scratch design. Rather than an incremental improvement on existing West German or American designs, designers started totally fresh.

Italy’s Leonardo and Germany’s Rheinmetall have signed an agreement to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) to develop a new Main Battle Tank (MBT) to replace Ariete and Armoured Infantry Combat System ...

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) has been awarded a $150m contract for the Abrams Engineering Programme, intended to deliver new technologies for the US Army’s M1E3 Abrams next-generation main ...

Brazil is to procure a new main battle tank (MBT), infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), and self-propelled howitzer (SPH), Janes learnt at Defence iQ's International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 ...

The MBT Advanced Technology Demonstrator, seen in this new video, takes a widely available older tank design and upgrades it with a host of new tech. The tank in the video is an upgraded Leopard ...

The German government is preparing billions of euros of new investments into the nation’s semiconductor industry, two months after Intel Corp. shelved plans to build a €30 billion ($32 billion ...

Europe’s quest for greater strategic autonomy on the battlefield took a tangible step forward with the formal announcement of ...

The Indonesian Army (Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat, TNI-AD) has taken delivery of the first eight of 61 Leopard 2A4 third-generation main battle tanks (MBT), according to executives of ...