主战坦克仍将是21世纪陆军作战中的主要武器装备之一。根据对当前局势及装甲火力技术背景的分析，世界下一代坦克火力系统技术将在激烈抗争的严峻态势下寻求新的发展，各军事大国都将在对现役装备技术实施挖潜改造的同时，积极探索高新技术支持下火力技术发展的新途径。建议我国在加强基础技术、总体概念、新型机理及结构设计预先研究上做好发展起步工作。

Main battle tanks will still be one of the principal weapons used in army operations in the 21 st century. Up to now, the general concept on the next generation of tank has not been obvious and also there are much difficulty for all people to develop the firepower of tank. Neverthless, both today's world situation and the setup of the arms rivalry from the military powers do bring about an appropriate condition on which the basic technology of the next generation of tank weapons will be formed and developed. Confronting with such a challenge. China should try its best to find and make a new breakthrough in the field of tank attack-defence confrontation and to strengthen the basic research of firepower technology and the advanced research of design in structure so as to lay a foundation for the research and manufacture of the next generation of tank with new features of firepower.