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kleinbl00 · 2237 days ago · link · · parent · post: Title: Black Knight Artist: BAE Systems Genre: Dubstep Label: Global MilitaryIndustrial Complex
The demise of the tank has been predicted since the AH-1 first flew in '65. In conventional first-world warfare they quickly become high-value slow-moving air strike targets. But when it's you vs. the peasants, a tank is a useful instrument of force projection. Tricky thing is, anti-tank missiles are now about as small as anti-aircraft missiles so you end up doing a lot of upgrading. You might have missed that - this isn't a new tank, this is a bunch of gack hung all over the British Challenger 2, which first rolled out in '98. And most of the upgrades are about survivability against angry insurgents that can now hide tank-killers in their trunks.