Ideally, Tanks works in combined arms units where they have supporting infantry to flush out enemy infantry(including Anti tank teams and artillery spotters) to avoid your tanks getting creamed by infantry with ATGMs or calling in artillery/air strikes on your poor exposed tankie boys. Russia apparently has had problems with this at times during this war, making the tanks easy pickings for both. Traditionally this is what APCs are for, to allow the infantry to keep up with the tanks, but on the same token, APCs aren't tanks and can easily be killed by them(or by the same ATGM or artillery/airstrikes).Well. Tanks have to work in units, and units can only be in one place at a time, so in theory aim the tank offensive somewhere where they won't face strong opposition. In a frontline as large as the Russia-Ukraine war, this should be doable - at least initially. Some sort of reaction force should arrive eventually, although this may take a few days. In smaller conflict zones (e.g. Arab-Israeli wars), tank on tank warfare was effectively guaranteed.
Complicating this is the use of drones by Infantry to spot enemy troops/tanks and also call in fire on tanks and a drone can be the size of a RC plane(for a small, cheap one) or something like the Global Hawk which can fly from the US and loiter for 16 hours high above the battlefield where its hard to engage.
Basically, Tanks have their uses for sure but OTOH it's easier then ever to spot them and if you have artillery or ATGM you can make life much more dangerous for them. And yes, other tanks can slug it out with each other and then it comes down to range(and the ability to effectively target at the upper limits of your gun range) and efficient use of cover and flanking.
On a related note the Memetic Gay Scottish Pig did a tank video about Russia's most famous Wunderwaffe, the T-14. And while it wouldn't be my primary source it is entertaining. Considering the tank itself is military vaporware, why not just go with this?
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