Ukraine was "proping" as they call it , the Russian defenses
spoiler
they work
Ukrainian Leopard tanks supplied by the west turned to smoking wreckages in "probing" operations to "test" Russian lines.
May or may not be leopards though, they're a handful of pixels.
"The Ukraine War has given me a new appreciation for just how fucking capable our weaponry is. America is 3 generations ahead of our closest opponent. And that doesn't change unless China can get its hands on our micro electronics."
My extremely lib friend a few weeks ago
I like the radio war nerd’s allegory of English longbow at Agincourt is to modern shoulder mounted and drone operated AT weaponry as stupid inbred French knights are to Cold War era tanks. And even when you’re not fighting nations with advanced weaponry you’re usually bogged down in urban guerrilla fighting that still makes tanks wildly ineffective.
Isn't the modern role of tanks to be infantry support? Hasn't that been the main role of tanks, more or less, since their invention? There's a specific type of war-brain that focuses on tanks as if they meet 1 v 1, in perfect mechanical operating condition, on a flat and featureless plain with no additional support on either side. These people are typically baffled that the Panzer VI Tiger didn't single-handedly win Germany the war.
