Why, in the advent of militarized drones, are tanks still in use?
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Because a high tech nation like the USA can jam drones, GPS, and so forth for miles and make them near useless.
Drones in a major war would also require building, and those places that make them would be prime targets for air strikes and not last long. Hard, though not impossible, to make them in a garage.
But mostly because drones are still very new in warfare. I do not think anybody expected them to be used like the Ukraine has done. They got innovative as shit, strapped hand grenades to cheap off the shelf launchers, then played basketball with said grenades in tank hatches. Crazy effective, like crazy as in revolutionary in warfare. We now have million dollar pieces of equipment that can be trashed, very easily, by a $200 simple drone with no risk to the operator.
There haven’t been many revolutions like this in warfare, and it really has been.
I think the near future will see simple and small lasers or small caliber computer controlled miniature gun turrets on most armored vehicle to protect against such things. The tech isn’t really far out, and some has even been tested. Given enough money, time, and technology, I think these smaller super effective drones can be rendered near useless, even in swarms.
I think submarine type drones will be super effective and become more prevalent though. Using a $1m submarine drone that has no crew and only a range of a few hundred miles could easy take down ships worth billions each. Those would be much harder to counter.
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