{"id":4116,"date":"2020-12-30T22:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2020-12-30T22:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:58:39","slug":"a-brief-bloody-war-in-a-corner-of-asia-is-a-warning-about-why-the-tanks-days-of-dominance-may-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"A brief, bloody war in a corner of Asia is a warning about why the tank’s days of dominance may be over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The debate has been around since at least 1973, when dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed daily by Arab infantry using Soviet-built AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missiles during the Yom Kippur War<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those arguing against the tank say that there is no point in investing in new ones since they will easily be destroyed by attack helicopters and anti-tank weapons, which have only gotten more advanced since the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh seems to lend credence to this argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 26, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev claimed<\/a> his country’s forces destroyed 252 tanks and 50 infantry fighting vehicles. A day before the armistice was announced, Armenia claimed<\/a> it had destroyed 784 armored vehicles in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both sides are likely exaggerating, but dozens of videos published by the Azeris, as well as open-source analysis<\/a>, make clear that armored units suffered catastrophic losses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/brief-bloody-war-corner-asia-002619496.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The debate has been around since at least 1973, when dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed daily by Arab infantry using Soviet-built AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missiles during the Yom Kippur War.<\/p>\n

Those arguing against the tank say that there is no point in investing in new ones since they will easily be destroyed by attack helicopters and anti-tank weapons, which have only gotten more advanced since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh seems to lend credence to this argument.<\/p>\n

On October 26, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev claimed his country’s forces destroyed 252 tanks and 50 infantry fighting vehicles. A day before the armistice was announced, Armenia claimed it had destroyed 784 armored vehicles in total.<\/p>\n

Both sides are likely exaggerating, but dozens of videos published by the Azeris, as well as open-source analysis, make clear that armored units suffered catastrophic losses.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[259,1127,158,1055],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-military","tag-tanks","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}