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Anti-missile active defense (Active Protection System) is still in it's infancy, especially with respect to tank based defenses. Many of them only work against
by chipsa 5y ago
Anti-missile active defense (Active Protection System) is still in it's infancy, especially with respect to tank based defenses. Many of them only work against direct attack, not top-attack missiles, and it's also common for them to effectively attack as giant shotguns to destroy the incoming target, which is bad for nearby infantry. They're also expensive, have sensors that must be maintained to be effective (which are sensors that can get shot at before the ATGM is launched), and can potentially be depleted in a specific sector of attack.
- yyyk 5y agoActive defence has limits, sure. There's a long dance between attack and defence. My point was that the tank isn't doomed there - if vulnerability to anti-tank missiles was the only issue, armies would research and deploy active defences everywhere and the tank would be important as it was. I think the problems are elsewhere. When infantryman can deploy offensive power outranging the canon, one needs to ask why have the tank when the infantryman requires so much less logistics. If say, the tanks could use a heavy mobile laser, than the equation would be different.