So are tanks useless in this day and age?

What's the point of making 7 million dollar vehicles if some chimp with a rocket will take you down... is the age of the battle tank pretty much over? Will modern warfare ironically come back to just dudes with rifles?

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Last great tank battle was 1991 Iraq, 74 easting.
Tank on Tank warfare is largely a thing of the past yeah

They weren't that bad in situations where the enemies don't have tanks, but assuming it's a near peer war, probably less useful, maybe even a liability.

They aren't. Google about Israel's Trophy System. It's a system designed to intercept and kill incoming missiles and rockets. The problems is that the Russians aren't even equipping their tanks with IR jammers.

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not really, when used correctly they are still very useful- mainly as highly mobile line of sight artillery and support. Any attempt to use them at the front lines is pretty much the wrong way to use them.

A tank is more intimidating than a platoon equipped with anti-tank missiles.
But the platoon equipped with anti-tank missiles will fight better and for cheaper than the tank.

when used against poor farmers they are very useful

That only stops infrared guided missiles. Won't do shit against a wire guided or unguided missile. Also only works until you run out of rockets to intercept with.

Ya. Chopper springs out nowhere and rockets it scrap metal

they are good for mowing down and suppressing the civilian populace and look cool. thats all

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Of course not. The reasons you see so many Russian tanks get destroyed is because of limited use of air power. If they flattened the country before rolling in, there'd hardly be any losses... or Ukraine for that matter.

yea
even the us seems to accept it

/k/ laughed when the US chose to fund pic related
but they arent laughing anymore

>fast
>cheap

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If you cause say, 6 interceptions and still have not won, the enemy team deserves the win.

>0 protection because protection is an outdated concept
lmao

the principles of the system could be applied to LIDAR recognition of incoming munitions combined with an energy-weapon
the tank still has many avenues of development through which to maintain its relevance

I'm not a military expert, but sending tanks into urban environments doesn't seem like a smart idea to me.

Those tanks are protecting the troops as the armor mostly just gets disabled.

>stops infrared guided missiles.
Yeah like the JAVELIN

Russniggers are OK with safetycage, no need IR shit etc

it's possible that aside from artillery that personal weapons are just the endgame, at least until land based drones are effective and autonomous

Comrades, What's the point of making 500k rubles vehicles if some Fashist with a panzerfaust or PAK40 will take you down... is the age of the medium tank pretty much over? Will modern warfare ironically come back to just dudes with rifles ?

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You only need protection when you lack projection which if you can't tell from our troon Hair Force the U.S. is quite good at.

That looks like a fucking death trap

No, because tanks are a huge force multiplier simply due to the fact they have tactical and strategic mobility when used in concert with other elements in combined arms. They can act as a command vehicle in a redundant network centric model, have powerful optics, thermal and IR vision mount and use a huge variance of ammo and weapons in conjunction with their main gun.

Most 3rd Generation+ MBT's have trophy and hard kill systems to defeat ATGM's.

The only reason why you're seeing russia fail as hard as they do is that Russians are

>A.) Incompetent, and have shitty officers/NCO's
>B.) The weapon systems employed against them were specifically designed to defeat Combloc vehicles and tanks
>C.) Don't have the means or money to modernize most tanks with active protection systems
>D.) Lacking completely in command and control capabilities