When thinking about war and military vehicles, it's hard not to immediately consider the tank. A hulking, armored brute with a mounted cannon, the tank is in many ways the quintessential war machine.
Tanks are officially evolving from heavy Cold War-era brawlers into networked, semi-autonomous battlefield systems that are built for drone-saturated combat zones rife with lethal anti-tank munitions.
The modern tank has dominated the battlefield since it first emerged in World War I. Militaries around the world have employed tanks for decades in conflicts ranging from land wars in Africa to the ...