Using tanks in modern warfare situations. Aren’t they sitting ducks if the opposition is equipped with anti-tank weapons? What are tanks good for in modern combat?

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Using tanks in modern warfare situations. Aren’t they sitting ducks if the opposition is equipped with anti-tank weapons? What are tanks good for in modern combat?

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Tanks are great as a mobile artillery clearing entrenched enemy positions – that’s what they were initially designed for in WW1, to clear the enemy out of trenches and then followed closely behind by the infantry to clear out any remaining enemy.

Normally the air units will clear the ground of the big guns, howitzers, other tanks but they’re not very effective at clearing machine gun nests, snipers up in buildings etc – but if you quickly follow up an airstrike with the tanks whilst the enemy is still regrouping, the tanks can quickly neutralise those “smaller” units and then the infantry will mop up and occupy.