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Armor's greatest challenge is its large thermal and optical signature. Very high altitude imaging systems, or low altitude imaging RPVs can or will be able to locate and track armor with almost perfect accuracy.

Once you know where all the enemy tanks are located, they can simply be avoided, or used as a map of the enemy troops, or targeted by every available weapons system. With precision munitions, sitting in a tank whose position is known means that your lifetime is the period of time until the opponent decides to destroy your tank.

All that armor doesn't do much good against a direct hit from artillery, a 500 lb bomb, or a Hellfire missile. Or even another tank or a helicopter whose fire control system has your coordinates in its target list.