“It may not look like the ‘heavy’ armor on a tank, but it will be armor nonetheless,” Schoenfeld said. If it takes a hit, the arms might be made of materials built to deflect those strikes from the center, where the valuable components that control, communicate or explode, reside.Īll of these advances may not look like the diesel-driven behemoths of the battlefield today, but at their core, they’ll do what armor has always done - protect soldiers while delivering firepower. Say this robot could both roll and crawl around the terrain. From its first appearance in the First World War, to the images of massed tank battles in the Second World War and beyond, the tank. He holds a Master of Military Arts and Science from CGSC and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Systems Engineering from Cornell University. The future of military tanks in the United Kingdom is discussed. He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 2005.

Schoenfeld painted a picture: imagine a robot that looks like the coronavirus, a central ball or sphere with many “arms” protruding from it. Kansas, and completed the Art of War Scholars Program. Some future robot armor could even have materials that allow bullets to pass through. “If that material could stretch without limit, the armor would be much lighter and much more flexible.”

“Think about the fact that body armor does not just stop a bullet but must do so with limited deformation and limited mortality for the human in the rear,” Schoenfeld said.

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