However, the majority of Beijing’s tanks are old designs, particularly Type 59 and 69 tanks more or less directly copied from the 50s-era Soviet T-54 tank. Such is their profligacy that I once had the ...

It’s a fact that tanks are by nature, big heavy beasts. Take for example the M1 Abrams, the United States’ main battle tank. Since its introduction into American service in the early 1980s, the ...

The first functional tank ever built was the venerable Little Willie, constructed in 1915 by the British William Foster & Co. It was not designed for combat, but rather as a proof of concept. The ...

TUSK entered service in 2007 with reactive armor panels for the side and rear of the tank to provide added protection from RPGs. A slat armor panel protects the engine exhaust outlet of the tank from ...

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The autoloader is more advanced than on the previous Type 90 MBT. The Type 10 fires newly developed armor-piercing ammunition. It is compatible with all standard 120 mm NATO tank ammunition. Secondary ...

Key Points and Summary - Despite Ukraine’s drone-saturated battlefield, the tank isn’t dead—it’s evolving. Our 2025 NATO Top 5 shows why: #5 Challenger 2 couples Dorchester armor with sniper-like ...

Every now and again, an ingenious design appears in the timeline of progressing technology and forever impacts its evolution. This phenomenon happened with World War II tanks when some adopted sloped ...

Ukraine is adding protective coverings to US-donated Abrams tanks to counter Russia. The 31 Abrams tanks it received came without the most advanced armor. Ukraine's new shields aim to protect against ...

March 17, 2024: Tank warfare has gone through many changes since the early 2022 Russian invasion. Russia lost the majority of its most modern tanks during the first few months. They were victims of ...