Tanks in Modern Warfare

Old tanks as no match for modern MANPADs

"everyone’s favorite kind of armored fighting vehicle"Both the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts have proved without a shred of doubt that Tanks are effectively Suicide Cans that have little relevance in modern warfare. They only look good in military parades.Anti-tank weaponry is sophisticated enough to blast open the greatest of tanks like a hot knife through butter. The warfare equation is changing where an expensive tank and it expensive trained crew can be annihilated at a minu

At least they're not getting rolled over by tanks.

I don’t think any NATO nation will send much in the way of tanks. Tanks are a giant target on a modern battlefield. As superior as the latest Abrams might be to most other tanks, anti-tank weaponry is far better and fairly cheap these days.The Russians are “fighting the last war” again, expecting numerical superiority in armor and artillery to win. It isn’t working.

Real tanks mostly do not drive threw dense citys, so its mute.

>horses are better than tanksThere's pics of UKR javalin calvary too. It's precisely because they're situationally better than tanks in certain combat conditions. For the same reason everyone is zipping around in dirt bikes and golf carts or UKR retiring M1 tanks from frontlines. Look up survivability onion, tanks/armor get detected and destroyed because they're too visible vs modern frontline battlefield recon. If you want to survive, have to move to smaller/

I'll submit Rob Lee's opinion, if you'd rather read than watch a video: https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/the-tank-is-not-obsolete-a...

Machine guns are pretty handy for guerilla warfare.Tanks, not so much.

There's a ton of minor pundits writing this lazy take. It's not a particularly compelling argument.We've known tanks in open terrain and without infantry screening are very vulnerable to ATGMs since the Yom Kippur war. We've also seen recent examples of the same in Syria and Yemen.A tank's utility doesn't rely upon it being somehow uncountable. We know tons of things counter tanks. But the combination of mobility, protection against shrapnel and heavy machine

I'm not in any armed forces so I am clueless when it comes to this.Why do we still use tanks in modern times?They seem useless in anything urban. They are easy targets for aircraft and jawlines. They need support vehicles for fuel and ammo. The only positive thing I see is that they can traverse unpaved terrain.Being so vulnerable why are they not remote controlled? Human lives cheaper than the tech required? They don't even need to be autonomous, just remote controlled.