Over the years, as different countries had various levels of resources and committed to different degrees, leading countries were able to systematically answer the need for innovation, while others found it increasingly difficult to stay abreast when it came to complex programs.
Therefore, each upgrade triggers a chain of responses within all the surrounding forces, so as to maintain strategic balance. The art of warfare is particularly sensitive to innovation: while older equipment can still be used outside high-intensity combat areas, each military force simply needs to match or surpass the capacities of the opposing party. The old continent isn’t dead, when it comes to making tanks. The market shift has profoundly changed the face of the European military industry, but Europe has adapted to this new phase. The capacity to conduct tank programs is often used as marker of a military power’s overall capacity. In short, the market is consolidating, and the big players are increasing their exports.
Since the end of the cold war, numerous tank programs have been launched, but by a decreasing number of countries.
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