None of these are tanks though. They are tracked vehicles with some armor plating (and even that isn’t necessarily the case for artillery or mobile air-defense). A tank as it is commonly understood has specific operational capabilities and those are are mostly denied by anti-tank drones.
If you adhere to the strict definition of “A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.” you are right.
Still. While we see less tank on tank combat, we see a lot of tanks shooting at fixed positions. Same goes with IFVs as they unload troops or enable tactical advances.
They are far from being obsolete but they’re using smaller windows of opportunity. And sometime it takes a lot of anti tank drones before a tank had a mission kill.
They’re still valuable tactical assets.
Edit: found the image which explains the definition problem at reddit.
None of these are tanks though. They are tracked vehicles with some armor plating (and even that isn’t necessarily the case for artillery or mobile air-defense). A tank as it is commonly understood has specific operational capabilities and those are are mostly denied by anti-tank drones.
If you adhere to the strict definition of “A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.” you are right.
Still. While we see less tank on tank combat, we see a lot of tanks shooting at fixed positions. Same goes with IFVs as they unload troops or enable tactical advances. They are far from being obsolete but they’re using smaller windows of opportunity. And sometime it takes a lot of anti tank drones before a tank had a mission kill. They’re still valuable tactical assets.
Edit: found the image which explains the definition problem at reddit.