ATLAS, Army officials reminded observers again and again, is agnostic to the chassis or turret it’s installed on.Ī view of the Advanced Targeting and Lethality Aided System, or ATLAS, prototype set up inside an M113. The M113 is not really meant to be involved at all, but the Army decided to remotely locate the crew station inside of it for safety concerns during a live fire demonstration expected to take place in the coming weeks. The chassis served as a surrogate for either a future tank, fighting vehicle or even a retrofit of current vehicles, while the turret was an available program being developed by the Armaments Center.
Of course, ATLAS isn’t the tank itself, or even the M113 connected to it. At the forward-most seat was a touchscreen display and a video game-like controller for operating the tank, while further back computer monitors displayed ATLAS' internal processes. Cavernous compared to the inside of an Abrams tank, the M113 had three short seats lined up. For this demonstration, the crew station was located inside the M113, not the tank itself. Trailing behind the tank and connected via a series of long black cables was a black M113.
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