Why, in the advent of militarized drones, are tanks still in use?
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Because it’s still a valid capability that counters measures which are effective against infantry and necessitates dedicated resources on your enemy’s part to handle.
Russian tank design and doctrine is decades out of date, and their performance and vulnerabilities should not be taken as representative of how it would go for any given other force.
You WILL see changes to the general shape and defensive measures of tanks, but there very much is and shall remain a role for armored and heavily armed vehicles which can bust open hard points which threaten infantry with light arms and light fortifications.
MBTs may give way to a greater number of things closer to the IFV concept or you may see greater focus on low cost drone deterrents. Radar guided gun based counters, directed energy weapons, dedicated armored EWar platforms to escort armor and infantry, counter-drone drones. All sorts of things will be and are being explored. But you’ll still need to be able to blow up a guy with a machine gun surrounded by sandbags without worrying about the machine-gun yourself in the process. The general idea of a tank is good at that and assorted others.
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