Ukraine Stugna anti-tank missile
Ukrainian troops with anti-tank missile launchers at a ceremony in Kyiv in November 2018.
  • Anti-tank missiles have wreaked havoc against Russian tanks in Ukraine.
  • Images of wrecked armor in Ukraine have reignited debate about the role of tanks on the battlefield.
  • But the issue is how those weapons are employed rather than inherent superiority or inferiority.

Videos of burning Russian tanks — victims of Ukrainian anti-tank missiles — has reignited the long-running debate over whether those missiles and other anti-armor weapons have rendered tanks obsolete.