The war in Ukraine has shown how vulnerable armored vehicles can be to attacks by cheap, expendable drones, threatening the tank’s century-long primacy on the battlefield.

Aided by greater accuracy and superior ISR capabilities, artillery has accounted for an enormous number of casualties in the ongoing Ukraine War—and the US Army has taken note.

Most armoured cars in the Second World War were built to do one thing: see the enemy first and run away fast. Lightly armoured, thin-skinned, and outgunned, they were scouts, not fighters. But Britain ...