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Re:Does the Tank Have a Future? by dragontamer on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:41PM (#31756489)
Video games.

https://www.matrixgames.com/game/armored-brigade

Armored Brigade is probably a good start. 4 minutes for artillery to aim, 1 to 2 minutes for shells to actually arrive, 10 minutes for air-support to fly in.

1 to 2 minutes to deliver commands to any particular squad (depending on how good their radio contact is).

Roughly realistic levels of arms, armor and penetration. Angle of shots and type of weapon (kinetic energy, such as APFSDS, or Chemical energy, such as M47 Dragon or HEAT rounds) are factored in.

Guided missiles, top-down missiles, fire-and-forget missiles. Etc. etc. Its not every weapon, but its a solid set of important weapons that probably cover a wide variety of possible combat situations.

Line-of-sight is simulated on an incredible degree: height maps matter, but so do trees (partially obscured), houses, and smoke grenades even. Line of sight is best at 12noon. Line of sight is worst at night, unless your squads are equipped with thermal vision. Weather (foggy conditions especially) can change things dramatically.

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The simulated soldiers/tanks aren't the best, but they're smart enough to run away during artillery barrages and hunker down. They'll seek cover on their own (and if you tell them a direction to defend against, they'll look for cover on their own too against that direction). Tank commanders "button up" during enemy fire (reducing their vision but likely saving the commander's life). Covering fire is therefore effective.

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The AI is okay. The AI runs into traps and ambushes, and never really figures them out. Still, good enough to get you the basics of strategy of each of these weapons.

Seeing the 3000m range of a tank vs the 150m range of a M72 LAW really demonstrates the bravery that those unguided anti-tank bazooka squads have.

Re:Does the Tank Have a Future? by Ducking_Insane on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:50PM (#31761332)
An interesting game that addresses a very similar conflict is Combat Mission:Black Seas [1]. This simulates a hypothetical 2011 conflict between Ukraine and Russia. This game was made before the 2014 invasion. Versions of the game are used to train officers in the British Army. A youtuber, Usually Hapless [2] covers a lot of combined arms warfare stuff on his channel using Combat Mission as a base. It's worth looking at.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1502380/Combat_Mission_Bl...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9egpHJiRis89uHkeyJiEug/vid...

Re:Does the Tank Have a Future? by jacquesm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:26PM (#31758125)
There are some very interesting developments in this field:

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1523791050313433088