Photo: Mark Wagner (From Aviation Week)
From New Wars:
Airplanes versus Tanks
Currently the US military is using its supreme anti-tank missile, the Hellfire, fired from unmanned drones like the Predator against Middle East insurgents and terrorists. I am curious if on some future air/land battlefield if the Hellfire and UAV combo will be used in the missile’s original role against the main battle tanks of better armed aggressor nations.
It is true that aircraft and armored vehicles have been at odds since each’s inception in the early decades of the 20th Century. Their development coincided with the mechanization of warfare and both came of age during World War 2. Aircraft were viewed by some as an economical way to blunt the German superiority in armored blitzkrieg tactics, and specialized tank busting planes were built or modified from existing designs for this purpose. Some of the notable ones then and since include the German Ju-87 Stuka, the Soviet Il-2 Sturmovik, the British Hawker Typhoon, as well as the long-serving A-10 Thunderbolt II.
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