The only problem that I see with today’s tank crews is their dependence on computers. It’s all good while it’s working but in likely scenario during combat, computers may be disabled and crew must be involved in the art of war. I remember, few years ago, reading article in Israeli newspaper about shooting competition between current tank crews and reservists in their late 40’s.Reservists used tanks with no computers and no gyroscopes at the range of over 4 kilometers. Reservists won hands down. As expected by me.:-)
Avigdor Kahalani is one of my heroes. I was amazed when the Merkava came out. I initially trained on the M60. We had a shoot off between my old M60A3 unit and one of the “new” M1 units. We outshot them stationary, but we weren’t even close to them when firing on the move.