North Korea´s Kim Jong Un claims the army has the world´s most powerful tanks

[Rigby5]

Handheld anti-tank weapons during WW2 were waaaaaaaay less common. Ground attack aircraft and artillery were way less accurate. Like I said, an IFV or APC can do adequately just about anything a tank can do at a lower cost, and a higher speed.

But if you are going to do something, it is better to have a tank than an APC.
You do not need personnel, but instead you need the weapons the tank carries.
The APC is just a larger target that is more easily destroyed.
A tank can match the range of artillery, an APC can not.

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

I do not think tanks are ever going away.
While anti-tank weapons are better, most still rely on a molten jet to bore through the armor, and that is easily prevented by sandwiching armor with ceramics.
Artillery and aircraft are more accurate, but more fragile. Aircraft are easily downed with SAMs and artillery no longer has a range advantage that prevents tanks from wiping the unarmored artillery out.

Tanks are moving to a cellular design where it the armor gets penetrated in one location, it no longer takes out the whole tank. It is not just a single container with an exterior armored shell any more. Each occupant has its own internal armor as well.

Artillery definitely still has a range advantage. Some of these guns can hit targets tens of kilometers away. I think your case is compelling, but I still think that tanks can't really do anything an IFV or APC can't. IFVs are able to defeat MBTs. They're cheaper, faster, lighter, and easier to churn out during wartime.

 

[AZrailwhale]

I do not think tanks are ever going away.
While anti-tank weapons are better, most still rely on a molten jet to bore through the armor, and that is easily prevented by sandwiching armor with ceramics.
Artillery and aircraft are more accurate, but more fragile. Aircraft are easily downed with SAMs and artillery no longer has a range advantage that prevents tanks from wiping the unarmored artillery out.

Tanks are moving to a cellular design where it the armor gets penetrated in one location, it no longer takes out the whole tank. It is not just a single container with an exterior armored shell any more. Each occupant has its own internal armor as well.

Not only that but counterbattery has gotten so good that even self-propelled artillery has trouble evading counterbattery fire. Modern counterbattery systems have the launchers/guns located before even the first artillery round lands.