As we are rapidly approaching the third decade of the 2000s, the militaries of the world are engaged in a race to modernize their arsenals. Most of these efforts are focused on air power, but there are those who are also researching new battle tanks, thinking, for one reason or another, these fighting platforms still have a role to play in the modern world.
By those I mean the Germans and the French, who back in 2017 announced a joint effort to design and field a modern tank meant to replace the aging Leopard 2, in operation since the late 1970s, and the Leclerc, which has been in service since the early 1990s.
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