Why, in the advent of militarized drones, are tanks still in use?
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An abrahms tank has a 120mm cannon that can put 2-7kg of explosives with pretty high accuracy anywhere it can see within 4-6km. It can proceed to do that around 40 times before needing to resupply.
A cheap FPV does not have that capacity and can deliver a grenades worth of explosive a similiar range. A more expensive drone is also much larger, and thus just as susceptible to anti-air fire as a jet.
As others have pointed out, drones also don’t capture location. People do, and people need to get where they want to capture safely. Infantry fighting vehicles like the bradley, and full sized tanks like the abrahms help accomplish this.
And additionally, keep in mind the drone strikes were seeing in ukraine against russian tanks, and vice versa, are largely against tanks which are around 30+ years old. Newer tanks do have defenses.
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