The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
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The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
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Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
#2On that topic: why Russian tanks are so vulnerable to these missiles and explode spectacularly [1]. Basically the canon auto-loads shells, and the shell storage is not in a different compartment than the turret.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/04/01/why-do...
Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
#3now you know why the USMC got rid of all their tanks about 2 years ago.
Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
#4Something I've been thinking about is that with the emergence of weapons like the NLAW and Javelin, the Secret Service probably will have to rethink the security of the
US president.
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#5No post body was provided.
Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
#6Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyAPQEb01Q
Chieftain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8
Bernard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPth_xqBXGY
Extreme summary, blame me if I missed something obviously important - unsupported tanks will die to infantry or artillery and have done so since shortly after the inception of the tank. Tanks are actually pretty cheap compared to replacing a human, it costs quite a lot to raise a modern human. The tank role still exists, but ratios of tanks to other fighting vehicles may change.
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#7People conclude that tanks (sometimes, armour in general) are obsolete because the most modern anti-tank weapons defeat exactly the 70s tanks they were designed to defeat in the 90s. If anything, when someone makes this point, it tells you they are clueless.
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#8It will be interesting times if all those weapons spill into the European Union.
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#9Something I've been thinking about is that with the emergence of weapons like the NLAW and Javelin, the Secret Service probably will have to rethink the security of the US president.
IDF Trophy or similar systems work…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)
Re: The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
#10now you know why the USMC got rid of all their tanks about 2 years ago.
Because they rely on the army for heavy tanks and focus their resources on other platforms.