[Joe 6-pack]

"Isn’t the proper tactical solution in this scenario lots of artillery to suppress the enemy missile teams?" The old SA-3 Sagger was the Eastern Bloc's ATGM of choice for decades...roughly analogous to our TOW, it was wire guided and needed to be flown to the target. Main gun, automatic weapon, and indirect fire, coupled with evasive maneuvering were found to be reasonably effective countermeasures by the Israelis in '73. At that time, AFAIK, no RPG warhead had been developed that could defeat the armor of most heavy MBTs (although they could certainly blow a track and achieve a mobility kill).

As I understand it, the shaped charge, chemical energy penetrators for the RPGs are a relatively recent development. Since they are essentially a "point and shoot" weapon used at much more limited ranges than a TOW or other ATGM, the traditional countermeasures are generally ineffective.

In heavily urbanized areas, tanks are also highly vulnerable to attacks on the top armor, which is generally a lot thinner than front slope or flank armor...

[Sender]

Somewhere I hear the saying, “the only more dangerous place to be than inside a tank, is outside the tank”.

[rmlew]

No. RPGs have been using shaped charges since the Panzershrek/Panzerfaust and Bazookas of WW2. The Soviet RPG has a number of warheads, the most common is a shaped charge in the RPG-7.