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Here's the answer I was assembling to your most recent tank question on the ref desk:
- To edit a previous question, find it on the page and click the "[edit]" link to the right of the header. I would suggest the following revisions to your conclusions:
- For the first, tanks remain a useful option for offensive operations. They are not necessary, as can be easily demonstrated via any modern offensive that didn't use them. Depending on the operation, they may even be a hindrance.
- For the second, only if you mean strictly man-portable anti-tank weapons. Vehicular (tanks) and airborne (attack helicopters) anti-tank weapons absolutely have offensive capabilities to match their defensive ones. I'd still question "mainly" in the infantry case -- mostly for a discussion of "mainly intended for" vs "mainly used for".
- For the third, yes. Note also that a major area of research is active anti-missile defense (i.e. shooting down the anti-tank missile before it reaches the tank). Does that really constitute "armor"? I don't know, but it certainly plays into the discussion of whether tanks remain viable on the battlefield into the future.
- For the last, tanks probably aren't vanishing in the near future, but that doesn't guarantee that they will be "the main weapon". As noted in prior discussions, tanks haven't played a primary role in Afghanistan over the past 10 years. — Lomn 14:34, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
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Please do not remove content without explanation, as you did at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science --Guy Macon (talk) 12:53, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. Your edits have been reverted or removed.
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Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in you being blocked from editing. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:41, 1 February 2013 (UTC)Struck out; It did not occur to me that the deletions might be formatting errors. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:19, 1 February 2013 (UTC)- Seems a bit harsh - I hardly think he's involved in a content dispute about your views on coffee or your right to post them at the reference desk.
- Tank Designer, whatever you're using to edit is messing up formatting (and also removing a lot of other people's posts). You need to sort that out, and use Show Preview to check the format is correct, before you use Save Page to save the page.
- Also, if you have any new questions about tanks, I suggest you start them with a different section title, like "Armour and anti-armour (part 2)" or "Armour and anti-armour (part 3)" and so on. --talk) 15:03, 1 February 2013 (UTC)]
- Tank Designer, after reading your recent comment at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science, I need to apologize for assuming that you had deleted content on purpose. I am sorry. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Was vandalizing my user page also an error? --Guy Macon (talk) 20:55, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
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