Old Question: Most effective air-to-ground weapon for tanks

I recall in the older thread that AT rockets weren't really all that effective. I suppose that has to be qualified. I'm not a big fan of the A-10, and a plane as modern as that still needs to catch enemy vehicles in column in order to enfilade them with either cannon or rockets. In the battlefield, you have to make a firing pass with each target you see.

So, assuming you have only fighter-bombers at your disposal, how do you stop a couple of armored divisions coming at you?

 

Anti tank mines for starters...Pick where they will be bottle necked. Hand held AT weapons have been effective for some time now...And have had Tankies worried for the last 3 decades...And thirdly (but not lastly) you unleash your flying tank...The Apache for the Americans. It can sit off far back and blast one after the other then get replaced.by more Apaches...
So the most effective air-to-ground at the moment are attack helos.

Australia's Aussie Tigers:

She can loop the loop!

 

The next 20 years will see an explosion (pun intended) of autonomous ordnance...both fired from the ground and from flying platforms...This will make tanks "almost" obselete - Except for the heavily armoured unmanned tanks running about with their armoured (same chasis) anti drone tank following up...This anti drone tank will have at least 2 ways of downing drones (physical and energy weapons) - Plus can deploy its own armed drones scouting ahead and to the sides for human hand weapon soldiers...
The next 20 years will make the Terminator battle scenes seem simple...

 

Hmmm...Energy weapons and anti drone/missile technology is becoming more everyday...This would work against a less advanced force which, to be fair, the US has the intelligence to only attack...
I think missiles (and drones) in fact any air target have already seen their hey-day...There are anti missile missiles, cannon and above all, energy weapons that can take a fast moving object out in about a second. See what Israel's Iron dome is doing as a begining to this technology...Faster ordnance will not trump energy weapons. The tech is advanced enough to be already on platforms and will mature much more in the near future. This in many ways will be a good thing, as Nuclear missiles will also become obselete.

I found a bunch of videos of lasers shooting down missiles...This one i chose because it is quick. Remember this was in 2009!