


In 2020, McConville said he worried about ops tempo in general, but he specifically pointed to air defense artillery and ABCTs as his top concerns. While high operational tempo within special operations is often at the top of the headlines, air defense and armored units have also been frequently tapped across the globe in recent years. Army, particularly the armored force, you’ve made the decision,” Coffman said. “Combined arms maneuver is how we will be decisive, how we will clear and hold land.” “If you want to take land, if you want to hold land, if you want to clear land, you need the ground element,” Coffman said. The image (which has circulated on social media to the point that it's unclear who originally took the photo) was reportedly taken on a highway in Arkansas, thousands of miles from where you might actually find the real tank.At the center of that maneuver, Coffman noted, is the armored force, providing mobile, protected, accurate, lethal fires in high volume. Join our squadron.īack in August, an image began circulating on social media, purporting to show a full-sized replica of a Chinese Type 99-A main battle tank on the back of a tractor trailer. ✈︎ Don't miss our best-in-class military coverage. But these aren't exactly your run-of-the-mill main battle tanks: they're dummies. Two tank sightings about one month (and thousands of miles) apart are pretty unsettling indicators of U.S.-Chinese relations at the moment.

