AbramsX: What Keeps the Tank From Dying in the Drone Age? In Ukraine, armored formations have come under relentless pressure from a range of unmanned systems. GDLS has positioned the AbramsX not as an incremental variant of the famous tank, but as a bridge to a future tank design. And on paper, the AbramsX is precisely that: a dramatic rethinking of the tank as we know it. Whether the proposed AbramsX can truly save tanks from obsolescence may hinge less on its own capabilities than on how adversaries respond and the battlefield evolves.