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better comparison is that fully equipped tank, with a trained crew, maintenance and logistics is 10mln. To shoot eliminate a tank you need about 7 shots from a NLAW and about 4 people that need very little training.

The best way to eliminate a tank to cut off supplies to it, so it's better to destroy trucks.

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Seven shots? According to the brochure, "Its armour-piercing warhead can destroy heavily protected MBTs in a single shot."

https://www.saab.com/products/nlaw

on average. You miss 70% and you may need 1-3 hits. (smoke or other protection, tank engine maybe cold etc.)

Tanks with active protection are even better. You hit less than 10% with nlaw. Newest Javelin is a bit better.

That's why light infantry focus on trucks.

Trucks are better targets since without them tanks aren't very mobile, whereupon artillery becomes more effective against them.

A tank will need approximately 300 gallons every eight hours; this will vary depending on mission, terrain, and weather. A single tank takes 10 minutes to refuel. Refueling and rearming of a tank platoon--four tanks--is approximately 30 minutes under ideal conditions.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m1-sp...