To me this is why its UAVs comparativly cheap & expendable, you are telling me there is no counter the link will stay secure. I am saying I doubt it if it gets high enough up the chain to be important the counter will come if it does not already exist. On new tank models I think they have all gone on the shelf for the next 20 years most countries are talking increased service life of 15 or 20 years due to new advances. Ammo is making giant leaps forward 30% penetration increase seems easily doable, FCS TI keep marching on & armour well. The current crop of APC/IFV is now tested by firing RPGs at it, Warrior took 6 in combat etc retrofitting to MBT whats it going to take to stop them. Then there are inovative things like airbag defence currently being tested though I can see warhead designers getting round it to a degree.And if you people don’t know how to produce a secure bi-directional non-detectable data flow between a combat robotic and its human interface, don’t assume the Russians haven’t figured it out
I would rather have been in a Russian tank against ATGMs if go back a handful of years but unless they are keeping up this is no longer the case.
Even defending against top attack is making some progress though Russia think thats CM arty only not ATGMs & of course recent events mean mine defence is improvving. As I said its a spending thing further compounded by the fact most arms industries are now conglomarats & will spend on there own to try & develop the next big thing.
Russian military is penny pinching most likely politicaly driven of course, or totaly inept. They lost the tanks in Georgia because the ERA was not fitted, West use as an add on but Russia its intgral to the tank design what were they thinking.