In the modern technological era of AI, pinpoint targeting and drones of many different sorts, not only are land armored vehicles obsolete but so are naval surface combatants. Nor can helicopters or fixed wing aircraft survive over a modern battlefield.
Against an enemy with sophisticated anti tank weapons, a tank is your coffin. Against an unsophiticated enemy it is a deadly beast.
We are a small club at present. but it is growing. It is understood by a few that 21st century warfare is going to break a lot of corporation rice bowls. Pilots are already obsolete. Ships are slow moving targets. Tanks are death traps. Submarines, even the most silent, are being tracked. Drone warfare is already being fought by joystick centers like Nellis AFB.
Twenty years from now wars will be fought by robots (if we last that long).
“In the modern technological era of AI, pinpoint targeting and drones of many different sorts, not only are land armored vehicles obsolete but so are naval surface combatants. Nor can helicopters or fixed wing aircraft survive over a modern battlefield.”
The Russians in that trench who were killed by a UKR T72 may have thought differently.
During WWII, the Soviet Union lost on average about 65 tanks per day . Despite such high losses, people didn’t argue that tanks were obsolete
Don't talk about the aircraft carriers. Satellites and missile technology have rented them obsolete as well.