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By the early 1970s the M60 was falling behind the T-64 and T-72, and the tank that would answer them was still years from...
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By the early 1970s the M60 was falling behind the T-64 and T-72, and the tank that would answer them was still years from...
On October 1, 1959, Chinese-built copies of the Soviet T-54A crossed Tiananmen Square at the parade marking the People's Republic's tenth anniversary. They came...
The Panzer IV was never supposed to be Germany's main battle tank. Under Heinz Guderian's original scheme the Panzer III would fight enemy armor...
The gearbox that rotates the Challenger 3's turret is reportedly not strong enough to cope with the up-armoured turret it has to turn. According...
The British Army ordered 386 Challenger-2 main battle tanks and sent them to Kosovo, Iraq and eventually Ukraine. Iraqi T-55s lost every engagement with...
The Record Is Clear: One could make a compelling argument that the M4 Sherman was a better-designed tank, but the T-34-85 was exactly the...
The M2 Bradley was designed to carry infantry alongside the Abrams, not to destroy tanks. During Operation Desert Storm it scored more tank kills...
Many Ukrainian crews survived the attacks that knocked out their Leopard 2s, because the German tank was built around crew protection. A destroyed or...
The West just dumped a tranche of tanks into the laps of the desperate Ukrainians, expecting them to plug those systems into their war...
The MBT-70 never entered production, but its cancelled funding was redirected into the two programmes that produced the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2.