Mobile platform using direct fire against point targets, supported by infantry, artillery and air attacks to reduce the inherent weaknesses of using a large vehicle in a dangerous environment.
first and most important role of tanks is cavalry action
tanks are the primary unit of maneuver warfare
they are used for breakthrough and then the subsequent exploitation
they are the only unit fast enough, armored enough, and well armed enough in a single package to successfully follow up their own breakthrough to begin an encirclement of enemy forces
tanks do not exist for infantry support, the tanks do not slow down for the infantry
this is a common misconception
infantry exist to provide armor support not the other way around, such is the importance of tanks
>Shooting things while being immune to small arms and smaller cannons.
This.
The "tanks are obsolete because of modern ATGM!" crowd tend to ignore that modern battlefields are overflowing with weapons that tear unarmored or lightly armored targets to shreds, and there's tactical utility in vehicles heavily armored enough to not die like b***hes to heavy machine guns or an light triple A gun. While tanks are vulnerable to specialized anti-tank weapons, lighter vehicles are vulnerable to practically everything.
Mobile artillery/cavalry hybrid that doesn't die instantly if it runs into infantry. When the enemy is sufficiently softened and ATGM are destroyed (which contrary to popular belief, an armored unit CAN do on its own if it fights intelligently and takes advantage of its superior range and optics compared to existing ATGM systems), they can then go into the charge to mop up any remaining soft targets.
>tanks are dead bro, they're useless at modern combat, just look at how poorly these underarmed barely fueled unreliable 30 year old shitheaps mindlessly thrown into a grinder by an absolute fricking joke of a military are doing!
target practice
moveable target
Mobile platform using direct fire against point targets, supported by infantry, artillery and air attacks to reduce the inherent weaknesses of using a large vehicle in a dangerous environment.
Glass cannon
The ability to rapidly acquire and engage armored and unarmored targets from a mobile platform that is reasonably protected from enemy weapon systems
he says it better than I can: https://youtu.be/lI7T650RTT8
The same as always but they'll need more active protection against top attack.
Except for ruski tanks, those BBQs are obsolete.
Tanks are vulnerable, that never changed, but if you look how vulnerable is infantry then put the tanks in a better light.
Big shooty
>how is this different from artillery
Big shooty directly instead of indirectly.
can't get arty'd or machine gunned
first and most important role of tanks is cavalry action
tanks are the primary unit of maneuver warfare
they are used for breakthrough and then the subsequent exploitation
they are the only unit fast enough, armored enough, and well armed enough in a single package to successfully follow up their own breakthrough to begin an encirclement of enemy forces
tanks do not exist for infantry support, the tanks do not slow down for the infantry
this is a common misconception
infantry exist to provide armor support not the other way around, such is the importance of tanks
Kek, russian high command is calling, they have a free spot for you mr moron.
If we automate them as much as we have been doing so far? They’ll take on a role more impairment than they currently have.
to be cool. nothing else is as aesthetic. all seething is from planeheads mad because combat planes are now totally obsolete.
Shooting things while being immune to small arms and smaller cannons.
>Shooting things while being immune to small arms and smaller cannons.
This.
The "tanks are obsolete because of modern ATGM!" crowd tend to ignore that modern battlefields are overflowing with weapons that tear unarmored or lightly armored targets to shreds, and there's tactical utility in vehicles heavily armored enough to not die like b***hes to heavy machine guns or an light triple A gun. While tanks are vulnerable to specialized anti-tank weapons, lighter vehicles are vulnerable to practically everything.
Combined arms.
throwing cars at the survivors or punching them off the roof
Mobile artillery/cavalry hybrid that doesn't die instantly if it runs into infantry. When the enemy is sufficiently softened and ATGM are destroyed (which contrary to popular belief, an armored unit CAN do on its own if it fights intelligently and takes advantage of its superior range and optics compared to existing ATGM systems), they can then go into the charge to mop up any remaining soft targets.
Employment program for tractor drivers
>tanks are dead bro, they're useless at modern combat, just look at how poorly these underarmed barely fueled unreliable 30 year old shitheaps mindlessly thrown into a grinder by an absolute fricking joke of a military are doing!
To take ground, destroy enemy vehicles and emplacements. Be able to withstand sustained fire from most weapons on a battlefield.