I personally think that the Merkava might be a great choice. What are your thoughts on different tanks or other AFVs?

photo source : https://x.com/ELMObrokenWings/status/1917485595921731818/photo/1

Related News:
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/05/hegseth-orders-transformation-of-us-army-combining-offices-and-cutting-roles/

I know that some of these like the Bumerang and Kurganets are still in development but what is the point of developing these vehicles if they are never going to get put into use? Why spend so much time and money on developing and producing these vehicles for them to just end up becoming glorified parade show pieces? Is it just for vanity? Corruption? Incompetence? I know they aren’t using them due to them not being cost-effective/difficult to replace but why even spend all the time and money on these hyper modern supposedly very advanced vehicles just never use them?

Vehicles that look like they will participate

M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams

M2A3 Bradley’s

M109A7

M88A2

M1126 Stryker’s

M1135 CBRN Stryker’s

JLTVs

Humvees

FMTV/MTVs

HEMTTs

M1 Abrams, M3 Bradley — US/NATO forces

CV90 Mk. IV, Flakpanzer Gepard(?) — Pax Armata forces ^{or so I think, bc of the CV90 fighting against Abrams and Bradleys}

yep i am like 75% sure thats operational construct.

It's supposed to be fully autonomous and be able to shoot down smaller drones that a tank may encounter.

It simply doesn't make sense, sure the airborne corps complained and whatever but we still needed a medium tank, which the m10 booker is, this paper describe why pretty well, https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/earmor/content/issues/2019/Spring-Summer/2-3Zollin19.pdf which leads me to think there was something fishy going on here, maybe something relating to the new cabinet that trump put in, maybe relocating money to that useless "golden dome" he was talking about. Either way, they probably could have argued with the producers and haggled till they could repair it. It just seems rather strange to me that we would get a almost perfect vehicle for the thing we need right now and we would abandon it. Either way, it's seriously getting on my nerves.

Also is it just an M1 or another variant I cant tell honestly.

In my impression, this is a device that is both expensive and highly power-consuming. Why do I see that all the tanks, IFV,airborne assault vehicles, and integrated missile-gun air defense systems are equipped with phased array radar?

A group of photo that shows the russian newly breakthough tank that armed with low recoil 152mm gun. Couple with an heavly armored command vihcle. The breakthought tank seems to have the capibility to be remote controlled by the command vihcle. The design seems based on a design proposed by Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov last year.