A number of counterattacks by the Ukrainians, in some cases using reserve forces, have taken place along the line of contact. While reports are not yet
The problem I think isn’t really that the tank is vulnerable to drones, but that you will never really make infantry not vulnerable to drones. Infantry protects the tanks from conventional AT methods, but if you use the drone to kill the infantry then a tank relatively is pretty much dead. Also I think they are going to replace the m2.
AFAIK infantry are usually much more resilient to artillery or aerial bombardment than tanks, since infantry can weasel into holes and micro-terrain features to use as cover, and could use certain materials to camouflage thermal signatures easier than tanks - worst case scenario they can dig tunnels, which tanks cannot (yet, most of the time). ground drones or drones that fly closer to the ground could find infantry easier perhaps but would have a harder time navigating more complicated terrain than the open sky.
Drones have also limited the size of essentially everything since their wide implementation in Ukraine. The typical squad size prior to Ukraine was 12 and now infantry are having to move in groups of 2-4. That alone is a huge blow to what infantry can do.
The problem I think isn’t really that the tank is vulnerable to drones, but that you will never really make infantry not vulnerable to drones. Infantry protects the tanks from conventional AT methods, but if you use the drone to kill the infantry then a tank relatively is pretty much dead. Also I think they are going to replace the m2.
AFAIK infantry are usually much more resilient to artillery or aerial bombardment than tanks, since infantry can weasel into holes and micro-terrain features to use as cover, and could use certain materials to camouflage thermal signatures easier than tanks - worst case scenario they can dig tunnels, which tanks cannot (yet, most of the time). ground drones or drones that fly closer to the ground could find infantry easier perhaps but would have a harder time navigating more complicated terrain than the open sky.
Drones have also limited the size of essentially everything since their wide implementation in Ukraine. The typical squad size prior to Ukraine was 12 and now infantry are having to move in groups of 2-4. That alone is a huge blow to what infantry can do.
They’ve been trying to replace it since like the 60s, and the most recent attempt flopped about 10 years ago.