A tank can still accurately hit a building from 3 km away with high powered ordinance. While drones are for sure a problem, having a column of tanks roll up and shell your town is still a big problem.
Yeah, but … this might be my electrical engineering bias, but if I had a fixed budget to put into tanks or drones with explosives … I’d probably put more of the budget into drones with explosives. They’re easier and faster to reposition, safer for the pilot, easier to manufacture from consumer parts, easier to reconfigure for multiple uses, and more precise to control (e.g. I don’t think tanks can move sideways). I think consumer drones can do 3km now? Like tanks definitely do terrify capitalists, and I wouldn’t fault a comrade for building a tank if they have the parts … but so can drones if used for cool stuff.
That is a good point, the only thing I can think of and it might not even be a good point is that the supply chain for drone manufacturing is significantly higher tech which makes it possibly more difficult to maintain in a longer conflict. When drones get junked they may be impossible to repair where as a tank is a mechanical contraption that can be fixed in the field. Thinking it out I’m sure iron, oil and munitions are all huge barriers too so I don’t want to hand wave that away either
A tank can still accurately hit a building from 3 km away with high powered ordinance. While drones are for sure a problem, having a column of tanks roll up and shell your town is still a big problem.
Yeah, but … this might be my electrical engineering bias, but if I had a fixed budget to put into tanks or drones with explosives … I’d probably put more of the budget into drones with explosives. They’re easier and faster to reposition, safer for the pilot, easier to manufacture from consumer parts, easier to reconfigure for multiple uses, and more precise to control (e.g. I don’t think tanks can move sideways). I think consumer drones can do 3km now? Like tanks definitely do terrify capitalists, and I wouldn’t fault a comrade for building a tank if they have the parts … but so can drones if used for cool stuff.
That is a good point, the only thing I can think of and it might not even be a good point is that the supply chain for drone manufacturing is significantly higher tech which makes it possibly more difficult to maintain in a longer conflict. When drones get junked they may be impossible to repair where as a tank is a mechanical contraption that can be fixed in the field. Thinking it out I’m sure iron, oil and munitions are all huge barriers too so I don’t want to hand wave that away either