The U.S. Army Studied China’s New Type 100 Tank and Published Where It Breaks. It Is Building Almost the Same Tank Anyway

The U.S. Army Studied China’s New Type 100 Tank and Published Where It Breaks. It Is Building Almost the Same Tank Anyway

China's Type 100 stunned analysts at Beijing's Victory Day parade last September, an unmanned-turret, hybrid-electric tank built for the drone age. Ten months later it is in service, and the US Army has published a formal assessment of it, crediting its strengths and then detailing exactly where American forces can break it. The twist: the Army is racing to field its own tank on the same architecture, which makes its list of Chinese weaknesses r…