[lmm]

What does a tank do better than a technical in that situation? AFAIK they don't generally carry better-than-MANPAD AA, they're not heavily armoured enough to resist precision munitions, and they're vastly more expensive.

[nradov]

Which is why tanks don't operate independently. They need air support, plus mobile medium range air defense systems.

[grey-area]

The same could be said of technicals - with air support they would be more effective.