• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Pretty much all tanks are. Sort of the joke of modern armored cavalry.

    Tanks, in general, are finicky delicate crudely engineered devices regularly prone to failure. So much of tank warfare is just about the supply lines necessary to keep the whole rolling front line up and running.

    They're also really big easy targets for advanced artillery.

    Tankies won't tell you this, but Tank Bad.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Supposedly most late Soviet tanks are lighter armored than contemporary NATO tanks specifically because the lower weight will allow them to be more mobile in Eastern European terrain. Can they stand up to a 1 to 1 with an Abrahms? No. But that doesn't matter when the Abrahms is buried in eight feet of mud.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        I mean, it doesn't matter when modern warfare is just a bunch of random assholes with javelin missile systems hoping to catch your T-69-420-1337 napping.

        High precision rocket propelled munitions do everything a tank pretends to do by replacing a durable piece of heavy machinery with a cluster of expendable idiots.