• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    For sure, hasnt the whole world learned that heavy expensive vehicles can be countered by relatively cheap munitions?
    Even without air superiority Ukraine has made MBT’s basically useless.

    • Skua@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      To be fair, the fact that so many MBTs are still being lost suggests that they are still useful enough to be used. However, some militaries have been trialled lasers as a sort of lightweight CIWS to protect such vehicles from the likes of incoming missiles, and while that’s expensive to add on in the first place the cost per shot is virtually nothing. Turkiye has supposedly already tried one out in live combat, and against UAVs no less