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Ukraine is fighting a defensive war from behind heavily fortified positions, of course they don't need tanks *now*.

When they did take the offensive back in 2023, armor was quickly neutralized. There was a lot of fuss early on about getting tanks to Ukraine, but they turned out to be a generally obsolete concept.

PS: Turns out the Gephard flakpanzer was a good investment: excellent low-altitude Shahed killer.

One of the countries in the world that is in the most trouble is Israel, because its force is almost entirely based on tanks; neutralizing those tanks will leave it unable to move,We've seen this in Gaza and southern Lebanon. It's a serious problem for Israel.👍

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Do you think that solves anything? Look at the situation in Ukraine, tanks are useless, only good for sporadic cases.

What the NYT reports about that is totally irrelevant, someone there is having an "agenda" and are picking their sources accordingly.

Tanks will return only when there is an effective drone defense system…

More likely when a combined arms offensive operation would incorporate infantry and tanks with a massive mosquito drone airforce. Tanks might not need to carry that anti drone defense - it just need to exist for the operation overall.

Actually a combination of drone jammers and automated shotguns should be good enough to go against FPVs but for those bomb droppers perhaps the tanks can launch a couple of their own guardian drones like those spaceship shooting games 😅

Tanks require air superiority. Once Ukraine has secured it, they can use Leos to exploit breakthroughs in Russian lines.

I really suspect that it is at least in part due to Ukrainian issues with manpower since there is no secret that Ukraine still struggles with its recruitment. As result, Ukraine is completely on defensive tanks weren’t the best defensive weapon at all times.

My guess would be that if Ukraine was in position to attack, it would require absolutely massive waves of drones going first and then along with the armed vehicles, and armed vehicles would still be needed for mobility reasons. Having a good gun in such a situation might be needed, but I’m not sure

I can imagine a situation where a Bradley-type APC would be more useful than an main battle tank for infantry mobility and support, and a drone swarm would also be more useful than a MBT for infantry fire support.

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