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Originally Posted by crockett
Tanks don't drive through mine fields either. The only thing tanks are good at is taking small arms fire and laying down contentious fire. The problem is an APC can do the same thing but it can also carry troops which carry more weapons and then be supported by heavy artery which can be moved into place pretty quick.
Any modern military using DU ammo can take out or disable any modern day tank. The only reason tanks were so useful in the start of the Iraq war for example, was because Iraq had outdated armor and no air power and it was wide open spaces. They didn't use tanks in the cities once the insurgents started fighting back heavily.
In WW2 air power was nothing like it is today. They had to depend on dive bombing to tank out tanks then which was always very hit or miss. Today, it's all satellites, droves and pin point accuracy..
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Well, tanks can drive through anti-personnel mines, if the risk for blown track is taken. But the point was that with tank or with more personnel (as you had small troop), the attacking party has better initiative, to either press on the attack or withdraw.
Every single ammo that can take tank, can take APCs too and IFVs, but IFVs are more like tanks in this example. But anyways, you have either destroyed tank of APC, and unless your only concern is cost, it ain't that different thing for the outcome of the battle. War is another thing, if this is about war of attrition. And modern tanks have developed too quite much from the WWII. Those are not that easy opponents as you seem to think.
The only possible advantage in tank vs APC, is speed, as you can have the troops in APCs anyways, using tanks doesn't exclude that.
Air power is even more important today than it was in WWII, but it was heavily important in WWII already. And at later part of the war, the tank buster planes used salvos of rockets.