Artillery barrels wear out. A modern 155mm gun fires a few thousand rounds before accuracy degrades enough to matter, which is a small number when a front line consumes several thousand shells a day. Ground warfare is a logistics problem before it is anything else.
This section covers land forces hardware. Main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled and towed artillery, engineering and bridging equipment, tactical trucks, and the recovery and maintenance chain that keeps any of it moving.
Active protection, drone threats, top-attack munitions and counter-battery radar have changed what a vehicle has to survive. Programs are covered with that in mind, and with attention to what armies are fielding rather than what they announced.
The Army’s first request to buy XM30s, rather than just develop them, ran into an “early to need” cut. The amount that survived matches a single line in the Army’s own cost exhibit. $33.07MHouse Appropriations level for XM30 procurement, down from $546.99M
Romania locked in a $1.07 billion plan to buy M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks. Officials call it a clean break from its aging Soviet stock. They argue the move lines up with NATO goals and lifts combat readyness fast. Parliament agreed after a
Washington has alerted Congress to a possible $2.9 billion Foreign Military Sale that bundles fresh M1A1 Abrams tanks with a fleet-wide rebuild for every Saudi M1A2. The Royal Saudi Land Forces want fifty-eight surplus M1A1 hulls, plus the teardown and refit of
