Russian invasion of Ukraine

Tuearts right boot said:
Got to question what the role of tanks are from now on. With drones and shoulder launched missiles on the scene they are easy prey.
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You cant think of them in isolation. You need to use tanks as part of a combined force and then they are very effective. As reported multiple times, this is where the Russian doctrine has failed, you need infantry support to clear out the infantry based anti tank units.

As regards drones, denial systems can also be deployed to render them inactive, either jamming the communication link or using directed energy to interfere with the electronics.

I dont think its fitted to any of the tanks supplied to Ukraine, but the Rafael trophy system will be deployed across a number of NATO platforms which gives a complete 360 degree defense against projectiles and coupled with modern composite reactive armour should ensure tanks remain a useful tool in years to come.

As always its a bit of a race between parties to develop a weapon to take out a platform and then the manufacturer of the platform develops a mitigation.
 
BlueAnorak said:
Not really a serious problem with combined arms warfare and anti-drone drones, lasers and missiles.
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This is what I was saying about yesterday. when you combine Bradley's/APC's and Tanks together properly the APC's are in Range of being able to be protected by tanks. while the APC's scout and protect the tanks from longer distance while feeding back intel to the tanks.

All of this takes a lot of training to work properly. so while individual unit training maybe complete they cant even start combined training till that individual unit training is done.

From reading up the Challenger 3 and new Abrhams have some advanced anti drone tech,
 
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