Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lieutenant General Christian Freuding, chief of the German army, talks to our host of Inside Defence, Shashank Joshi, about how land forces must change for the wars of the future: the balance between legacy systems and emerging technology, the capabilities Germany is racing to improve, and why the tank must become a “mothership” for unmanned systems.

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00:00 - The balance between old and new technology
00:31 - What Germany needs to prioritise
02:15 - Does the tank have a future?
03:54 - Why the battlefield won't be fully unmanned
04:29 - Data is the new ammunition

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