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Tanks in Ukraine and in History

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Pansar Faust

Newer, late generation anti tank weapons are starting to trump more sophisticated tank armor that was sort of unrivalled the last 20 years. So again, keep the idea, it goes back to classical warfare. For every weapon, offensive weapon, there is a counter response from a defensive weapon. And you get long periods in history where the defense is on its on the rise, and the offence can't do anything. That was sort of like before the age of the catapult, you couldn't take a city very easily, an then a catapult made it equal. Same thing with hopline armor. Vsev: i don't know where exactly we are in terms of tank versus anti tank

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