This article is concerned with the proposition that whilst employment of armour has and needs further to evolve, fundamentally the tank remains a supreme battlefield asset providing a unique range of capabilities, not least of which, in an era of drone warfare, is its persistence.

In recent decades analysis has focused, despite armored warfare successes in the Middle East, on the vulnerabilities and obsolescence of the king of land warfare. Nearing its first century since deployment in the European battlefields of World War I the Main Battle Tank (or MBT) remains arguably the most potent symbol of land warfare (1) Highly maneuverable, heavily armored and possessing devastating firepower, the tank was regarded until the 1970s as impervious to anything other than facing another of its kind. Jeffrey Bradford, the U K Defence Forum's Director of Research, returns to a theme first explored by us in 1998 Olympus under threat: Armoured warfare and the future of the Main Battle Tank (2012 – 2040). Dr.

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