I think it is a lot easier for coalition aircraft to take out ISIS tanks, without spotters, than you have been led to believe. Heck, just look at this report from Sept.26 or so when the campaign first started -- 4 tanks taken out that day alone, without spotters. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-hit-by-new-u-s-airstrikes-in-syria-iraq/ The problems is that they were not trying at all around Kobane until Tuesday, when they realized it would not look good to have another ISIS major victory and another massacre of people fighting ISIS who didn't get help from other people who say they want to fight ISIS.
I think it is a lot easier for coalition aircraft to take out ISIS tanks, without spotters, than you have been led to believe. Heck, just look at this report from Sept.26 or so when the campaign first started -- 4 tanks taken out that day alone, without spotters. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-hit-by-new-u-s-airstrikes-in-syria-iraq/ The problems is that they were not trying at all around Kobane until Tuesday, when they realized it would not look good to have another ISIS major victory and another massacre of people fighting ISIS who didn't get help from other people who say they want to fight ISIS.