Since the First World War, the main battle tank has continued to carry the same priority, namely to create a break in the opposing lines. Can we, therefore, design a new generation combat tank that is actually more efficient than the previous generation, without succumbing to the almost systematic increase in weight, gun caliber, and ultimately, price? The answer to this question requires going into a little more detail in the 'tank theory'. The Israeli CARMEL program plans to design a 35-ton armored vehicle, very mobile, highly digitized, served by a crew of only 2 men, initially designed to take over from the Merkava. Yet there is a program that radically changes paradigms in this area. As a new generation of battle tanks emerges today, with the T-14 Armata in Russia, and MGCS in Europe, the paradigms that underlie their development seem unchanged, with ever more protection and more firepower, so as to sustain the fire of the adversary while destroying it before he himself cannot destroy it.

Modern tanks design