'Ultra-Modern Nato Equipment' (A Bradley took down a T-90)

I think panic. They were taking very accurate fire, and I can only imagine it's fucking loud when a bushmaster auto cannon is rapidly hitting your tank, even if not penetrating. If even few of the rounds were causing real damage, I could see that relentless barrage jarring almost any crew

I'm sure after the first few round of the Bradley hitting hitting their armor they started panicking and made everything even worse than it already was too. There's a lot to be said for a higher rate of fire than a very slow powerful shot. Sure, the T90 probably only needed one good hit, but it takes a lot more luck and skill to get it.

Definitely moving into an era where armor is near useless if your enemy has effective antitank weapons and there isn’t extremely tight integration between unmanned surveillance vehicles and your armor. I suppose someone could have shot the UAV down here, but if the IFV doesn’t let the pressure up you can’t exactly sit there and gaze around in the sky looking for a tiny little robot while a 25mm autocannon on treads hunts you.

Not trying to extrapolate too much here, the tank was by itself and likely had a panicked, poorly trained crew but still just imagining the commander in the bradley being able to watch where the tank turret is pointed in real-time and peak only when it wasn’t looking the right direction definitely seems like an utterly decisive advantage (if they were able to do this), especially in an environment that isn’t a full scale battle with so much chaos that the UAV would be destroyed or the information useless. Heck in this situation if the tank started to raise its turret to hit the drone with its coaxial, and the drone is in close contact with the Bradley than that is just a perfect opportunity for the Bradley to attack right?

I know people say the death of the main battle tank is greatly exaggerated but I think the role of the tank will vastly shift towards emphasizing integration with UAVs like this over most other factors. I know missiles aren’t the same thing as cannons but I don’t understand why an APC with a complement of javelin type missiles couldn’t just sit behind cover and annihilate direct fire armor vehicles with a suite of drones providing targeting. It wouldn’t work at great ranges but for a situation like this a cannon kind of seems a pretty inefficient weapon.

How did you use a gif as your avatar?

Get fucked, orcs

Is it? I never heard much about it being debunked?

Oh shit.

Link?