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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Ah if the US decided so, it changes everything 
P.S. As about the modern tanks. Yes Germany and Israel make the best ones today. So let's see if the situation will change soon or it won't ;) |
Considering the US has the most battlefield experience out of any country in the world.. Well then I suspect we maybe on to something.
If you look at recent wars in Afghan & Iraq it shows you the tank no longer plays the role it once did. It's just too easy for even cheap modern day explosives to take them out. It's not WW2 anymore, where the average infantrymen is carrying a single shot semi auto rifle. Now days even insurgents can build tank killing IED's or at the very least disable it.
Between drones & infantry not to mention even select Hummers are capable of launching anti tank rockers. It's really not a viable large scale weapon anymore. Even Russia in Ukraine is not depending on tanks very much, despite the fact they control the air power..
The battlefield is now dependent on air power, and moving small strike forces around quickly. That means light armored troop transports and trucks like the Hummer and so on. Large scale troop movements are sitting ducks today for any modern military and useless against small hit and run insurgent style attackers.
If you get to the point of moving large amounts of troops around on the battlefield, you are already in control of the areas and just squashing out resistance & controlling the area which a tank is useless for and APC's or Hummer type trucks are much better suited for.