The tank will become an armored, mobile power generator with rail guns, beam weapons and missiles.
It will have tremendous computing and sensing systems.
They’ve been saying this since at least the first major use of the ATGM in the Yom Kippur War. It’s been nearly 50 years since then, and tanks are still around.
However, tanks are expensive to build, maintain, and operate, so as we see more inexpensive weapons that can kill them, we’re going to see less incentive to build or buy them.
What it actually means is that a cheap method for killing drones isn’t far away. Including immediate real time counterbattery fire against the launchpoint.
It isn’t necessary to use a large missile-carrying drones that fly high over target for long periods. Really tiny drones can fly low, wait on the ground and inject poison gas at tank air intakes or enter through the cannon muzzle and explode the shell in the breech.
I have to agree. Drones have changed the battlefield.
I can’t think of anything better for making an occupation stick. The occupying soldiers need a safe and moveable base.
The first image looks like the NC coast in August.