[brian_spiering]

The continued evolution of war.

“Hurdling trenches, crawling over shell craters, and walking through forests unhalted by intense gunfire, the tanks cannot be stopped by anything less than a direct hit from shells of considerable caliber,” reports The Ogden Standard of October 21, 1916, 4 p.m. City Edition https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-wwi-tanks

[bluGill]

As I understand in WWI mechanical failure was the king of stopping tanks, which then allowed a lot of other options for the enemy to deal with the crew.

[coffeebeqn]

I wonder when were anti tank mines introduced? They have always been effective at immobilizing tanks which is one way to stop them

[rawgabbit]

The Ukrainians were effective destroying Russian tanks using Javelins and NLaws and civilian drones for spotting.

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/an-unerring-sense-of-locality-ukra... >the Russian tank crews fell victim to roving bands of hidden Ukrainian light infantry armed with Javelin and NLAW ATGMs, as well as armed drones. Like the destruction waged by Egyptian and Syrian Sagger teams, these ambushes resulted in the widespread destruction of Russian tanks and contributed to Russia’s operational abandonment of its northern axis of advance. As a result, between February 2022 and March 2023, Russia lost 1,917 of what the International Institute for Strategic Estimate estimated to be a prewar total of 3,417 tanks in active service