The US Army needs tanks to win a war in the Pacific, but it knows the Abrams isn’t the right tank for the job

The US Army needs tanks to win a war in the Pacific, but it knows the Abrams isn’t the right tank for the job A US Army M1A2 Abrams tank at Fort Stewart in Georgia in December 2016. US Army/Staff Sgt. Antonio Vincent The US Army knows it needs tanks for effective combined-arms operations in Europe and Asia. But it also knows that rivals are building weapons that are potent against the aging Abrams tank. The challenge now is building a tank to face new threats in different regions for decades to come. Can one tank still be good enough…