One of the only funny parts of this is watching western politicians realize how hideously expensive their equipment really is to just keep running
Like yeah, maybe it is the perfect weapon - if you have an entire mechanical arm dedicated to it, the fuel for it, the parts for it when they inevitably break in a couple weeks, bridges that can support the insane weight of them, and so on
Turns out if money is no obstacle, you can have seemingly powerful weaponry - but you need all of that money for it to work.
It's near impossible for modern MBT armour to stop a good hit from an equally modern ATGM or APFSDS round. The best way to survive is to not get spotted and hit in the first place. That's why Soviet doctrine had it right, quick low profile tanks with "decent enough" armour. Hard and soft kill APS can help with RPGs and ATGMs but after seeing how the Trophy system of the IOF is absolute dogshit I don't think it'll be enough.
I think if natoids wanted an effective combat platform over grifting money, they would develop a tank with good all around protection against autocannons, but just enough armour on the frontal arc to get lucky vs dedicated anti tank weapons. If you have a 70 ton tank that gets penetrated by Kornets, might as well make a 50 ton tank that gets penetrated by Kornets instead and can actually cross bridges.
if natoids wanted an effective combat platform over grifting money, they would develop a tank with good all around protection against autocannons, but just enough armour on the frontal arc to get lucky vs dedicated anti tank weapons.
He's technically not wrong: If you plow enough tanks thru a minefield, the minefield will no longer be there and you can then plow your tanks into the next and then you can plow your yanks into the next
In NATO they only have enough tank shells for half their tanks. So they send them out in pairs, and when one tank falls the other one picks up its shells and continues fighting
You see, minefields have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own tanks at them until they reached their limit and shut down. ~ Zap Brannigan
for a long time I thought this guy's name was David Axehole because a user (72T? I forget) would always refer to them as such when posting excerpts of their cheerleading for AFU