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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Sure, anti tank weaponry can make a tank very sad. But a tank’s answer to *so much stuff* is ‘screw you, I’m many tons of terrifyingly fast all-terrain armoured killing machine’. In the game of rock-paper-scissors, ‘I’m a tank your argument is invalid’ is a surprisingly powerful move.