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 infantry support against entrenched positions or armored vehicles or enemies lacking in AT capabilities.

In the reverse they’re also used in entrenched positions on the defense.

Though during the Iraq war they were used to blitz the inferior Iraqi armored divisions, as most of the country was wide open desert.