纵观第二次世界大战后的坦克发展史,人们可以看到,几乎每隔10年左右就会出现新一代的主战坦克。但是,进入80年代后,坦克的发展进程明显地放慢了,到了90年代的今天,第四代主战坦克仍然迟迟未能正式露面。究其原因,主要是由于近年来国际政治形势和军事格局发生了许多变化,同时也由于现代科学技术的迅速发展,使反坦克武器(如以反坦克导弹为代表的精确制导武器和武装直升机等)的性能及作战效能都有了很大的提高,这使现代坦克面临着一场严重挑战,从而严重地动摇了坦克在地面战场上的主导地位。在这种形势卜,未来坦克的发展方向 Looking at the history of tank development after the Second World War, one can see that a new generation of main battle tanks will emerge almost every 10 years or so. However, after entering the 1980s, the development of the tank obviously slowed down. By the 1990s, the fourth-generation main battle tanks still lagged behind. The reason is mainly due to many changes in the international political situation and military pattern in recent years. At the same time, due to the rapid development of modern science and technology, anti-tank weapons (such as precision-guided weapons such as anti-tank missiles and armed helicopters ) Performance and combat effectiveness have been greatly improved, which makes the modern tank facing a serious challenge, which seriously shaken the tank on the ground battlefield dominance. In this situation, the future development of the tank