Is tank really valid in tidays battlefield. The British army is looking to get rid of theirs.
Surely the future is drones.
Highly mobile. Versatile and very effective and cheap
Yes it is valid, tanks aren’t going anywhere.
For a country like Britain tanks are useless because they’re an island with no enemies nearby, they have no place to use tanks, they will keep a small number which is enough for any foreign deployments they may need like Afghanistan and such, and no they’re not getting rid of their tanks, they just unveiled the challenger 3 and are spending billions to upgrade their fleet. Germany and other European countries are similarly downsizing their tank fleet but are still keeping a sizable number and spending a lot of money to upgrade them.
On the other hand for a county like Pakistan, Russia, India, China etc tanks are more relevant than ever, you cannot attack a target like a city or am enemy base without tanks because nothing has the armor or firepower to break through enemy lines. Certainly not APCs or infantry. And drones are useless in a balanced conventional war. They’re only useful if one side has absolute air superiority, like Turkey in Syria or Azerbaijan over Armenia, where there’s no SAM or air threat to the drones. In a Pakistan-India conflict drones will be near useless in anti-tank roles because they’re extremely vulnerable to enemy aircraft and SAMs, they’re slow and cannot defend themselves. Tanks are absolutely necessary for the function of infantry too because their entire role is infantry support.
Should PA not sell these t80ud. And replace them with VT4 or ak1
These tanks are 20+ years old
And on another note should Pakistan not get ToT of tank engines and other components they inprt from Ukraine
20 years is barely any age, the T80UD is still a potent machine, it was the best of its time. Plus they’re being modernized and rebuilt, they will serve for a long time still.
PA has nearly a thousand tanks that need to go before it, Al-Zarrars and Type 69s, 85s.
