Question for you armored/tanker folks out there.
Ukraine has shown that tanks and armored vehicles can be a huge liability on the modern battlefield, what with all the anti-tank weaponry available these days. (Going on 1700 Russian tanks removed from the Russian inventory in a year, and 4 times as many vehicles total)
If countries supporting Ukraine start providing armor to Ukraine, whats to say that the Russians wont have similarly costly results taking out Ukraine armored forces? Are the western tanks better against Russian anti-tank weaponry? Is Russian anti-tank weaponry a real threat to a German tank or US armored vehicle?
Russian ATGMs are not as good. The Turks suffered losses in Syria sending tanks unsupported by infantry, which I do not think the Ukrainians are stupid enough to do. The big problem is artillery, which means they would have to keep moving.
A tank, alone on the battlefield, is a rolling coffin.
A tank, in a combined arms group of mobile infantry, artillery, rotary wing support, etc, is a DEADLY rolling killing machine.