Metis-M & Kornet AT Missiles vs. Merkava Tanks

[Ike]

...but am interested in any comments on how WinSPMBT may already reflect this sort of a result. I look forward to doing some testing myself in the near future.

I think WinSPMBT simulates this quite well myself. ANY tank in the game is vulnerable to the latest ATGMs as in real life. I think it's a mistake however for the military circles to be writing off the tank however as outdated. Tanks were NEVER impervious and were NEVER meant to be. In southern Lebanon the Israelis never used tanks as they are supposed to be used. I think the media saying how the Merkava was a total failure is blown way out of proportion anyway. Hizbullah fired HUNDREDS of ATGMs at Merkavas and took out what?, twenty in 34 days. That's not a total failure in my opinion. I think Israeli casulties would have been much higher had they not deployed tanks. Can you imagine casulties in any war while having to clear out bunker after bunker without the direct fire support of a tanks big guns and high explosive shells?

The tank is not outdated, the militaries have just forgot how to use them and have been on the quest to build the indestructable tank. Never going to happen.

In WinSPMBT I find tanks essential to keep casulties down. Move in Infantry to spot the enemy, including the ATGM's. Then blast them with long range direct tank fire. Works for me. Maybe I lose a tank or two to the ATGM's but I come out way ahead.

[pdoktar]

The military hasnt ever said that the tank is obsolete, the media has, as you already said.