Is the day of the usefulness of the common tank is vanishing?

[rayg]

Region of intense conflict near Kyiv turned into tank cemetery

Thought I'd post this clip of the numerous destroyed tanks that was posted a couple weeks ago. It kind of makes it appear that the day of the tank as a major military weapon is fading!

It shows a region, that turned into a tank cemetery with the tanks wrecked in apparently intense clashes and left on the roadside near the capital Kyiv of Ukraine, attracts people.

It don't say how the were destroyed but I bet probably with the help of artillery and those little flying machines w/bombs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx6np9YRrNI

[Roadkingtrax]

Yes.

[togor]

Well considering the tank was conceived as a tactical remedy to barbed wire and entrenched infantry positions over 100 years ago, seems like it had a good run.

[lyman]

well,

back in the late 70's, a high school friend's brother was a tanker in Germany

he told us the life expectancy was 6 minutes for a tank crew once the sh`t hit the fan,,,

and with the history we (US) has in taking out tanks in Iraq,,

and top that off with today's drones,,


all a tank is is a target

[RED]

We have known since somewhere around 1970 that technology would prevail. I landed in a F-4J Phantom II aboard a carrier at night, hooked up via a data link to a computer and no input from the pilot. It was called the ACLS or the Automatic Carrier Landing System and it was primitive. VF-31 was the first Navy fighter squadron on East Coast to actually operationally use the system. The on board carrier main computer was so advanced that you could play a game of ping pong with it.

Folks that was over 50 years ago! What they can do with unmanned drones has made fighter pilots and air to air combat as obsolete as horses and buggies.

Yes tanks are obsolete and so are manned fighter/attack jets.

[dryheat]

Good one Red. Surprisingly honest from a guy who, I would think would be die hard air combat. But next it will be drone wars. Or Terminators. We all of a sudden haven't given up on war.
Would that be Pong? Lord that's old and it paints a picture of what computers might have been like fifty years ago. How did we ever get to the moon with stuff like that? Same way prospectors found gold nuggets laying on the ground; they busted they asses and worked with what they had. Didn't know any better. But a kid figured out how to make a better one. Improving stuff has been around before 1970.
Better weapons. I'm not sure that's an improvement. Techno changes, people stay the same.