In tank battles whoever shoots first wins.
One tank on one tank. Fifty tanks on fifty tanks is different. Strategy terrain training doctrine flexibility command and control discipline skill initiative and luck all count. Oh communications communications communications!
who ever shoots first doesn’t always win the battle. HMS hood took a first shot at Bismarck. Bismarck took one shot at HMS Hood.
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That's a crock. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israelis found the Arabs' Soviet-made T-72s couldn't hit the broad side of a barn beyond 1100 meters. The Israeli's American-made M-60s (and even American M-48s retrofitted with the M-68 105mm rifled-bore gun), on the other hand, could zap a T-72 from 3 kilometers. So of the Israelis encountered an Arab tank at a range of more than 1100 meters, they could take their own sweet time about shooting it with minimal danger fro return fire.
And one of the cardinal rules of warfare is to always engage the enemy from the maximum range of your weapons systems (especially if you have near three times the enemy's range).