Concerning the issuing date, we have tried to consider the most plausible ones among those mentioned for prototypes and mass production. Other light and medium tanks would deserve to appear in this list, as they became or become operational during these last years, the most recent one being the Turkish-Indonesian Kaplan-Harimau Medium Tank. But DCS damage modeling and modern tanks just need to be considered.īasically, tanks get mavericks and GBUs, light armor gets the gun, infantry gets rockets.Army Recognition is presenting the 15 most modern main battle tanks currently in production or ready for series production to date (19 April 2020), a list that excludes the light and medium tanks of the 25-35-ton class except one, the Argentinian TAM 2IP, to have a South-American tank in the list. Now I'm not saying the Gau8 isn't amazing, it's bigger than a sedan and it flies.
Plus, figure only about 10-15% of your depleted uranium rounds will actually hit the weak spots on the tank, while a good chunk of the armor on a T72 tank is almost A FOOT thick. You also have dust and haze and vegetation to contend with, at a range of around a mile, while moving at 250+kts in a jet. The stuff is thick and lingers in the air for quite a while, making a gun run very difficult. It doesn't just disappear IRL like it does in DCS after a few seconds. But also IRL, the WP smoke screen from a main battle tank would make it much more difficult to put accurate rounds into the weak spots. But in DCS we just don't have that luxury. IRL, a few dozen 30mm rounds into the radiator or treads would incapacitate a tank. We tried all different aspects, high angle turret shots and low angle "notional" radiator shots. We both spent our entire ammo supply before the one tank popped. A friend and I recently did a similar test in A-10s against a T-72. Modern reactive aromor + DCS damage modeling = no dead tanks.
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