Get a grip, the Army Futures Command chief said: It’s way too early to start second-guessing the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program.

The Ripsaw design is so flexible, the company claims, it can scale up and down for different missions.

Industry’s prototype Robotic Combat Vehicles are proving more capable than the Army expected, Brig. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman told me: “It is really exciting.”

With the surprise disqualification of the Raytheon-Rheinmetall Lynx, the Army has effectively left itself with one competitor for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, General Dynamics — unless the Pentagon or Congress intervene.

The IDF plans to replace hundreds of aging American M109s with Elbit’s ATMOS, which is 50 percent made in the US.

The Army will sacrifice some protection to fit two NGCVs on one Air Force C-17.

Here’s the real history of the nation’s only factory for the massive M1 Abrams tanks.

All told, the Army’s investing $57 billion in modernization over five years — but it wants to take time to test new technologies before it commits to them.

Good news: That’s more money than the Army thought it could get for its top priorities. Bad news: We won’t see most of it this year.

Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?