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.
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
