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Synopsis: Ukraine has received the final shipment of M1A1 Abrams tanks from Australia, bringing its total fleet to 80 units following earlier U.S. donations....
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Synopsis: Ukraine has received the final shipment of M1A1 Abrams tanks from Australia, bringing its total fleet to 80 units following earlier U.S. donations....
Synopsis: Main battle tanks aren’t obsolete in 2026—badly protected, poorly networked tanks are. The leading NATO designs combine heavy armor with modern sensors, thermal...
Synopsis: For years, analysts predicted that drones and precision strikes would make tanks obsolete. Ukraine’s war has complicated that narrative: tanks remain heavily used,...
Key Points and Summary – Tanks aren’t obsolete—the battlefield is. Using five criteria (firepower, protection, sensors, mobility, and combat performance), this ranking argues the...
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s M1A1 Abrams tanks have now reached Ukraine’s front lines, effectively becoming the remaining Abrams backbone as earlier U.S.-supplied...
Key Points and Summary – Though retired in the United States, the M60 Patton remains frontline armor for countries like Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia,...
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a bold U.S.–West German bid to build a joint “super tank” to blunt Soviet armor in...
Article Summary – The M1 Abrams has defined U.S. armored power for four decades, from slaughtering Iraqi armor in Desert Storm to surviving IEDs...
Key Points – The M1 Abrams tank, a dominant force for over four decades, faces obsolescence by 2040 according to an Army Science Board...
A recent article written by David Axe highlighted a Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 tank that supposedly got hit by as many as 10 Russian FPV...