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Destroyed Israeli Pattons during Yom Kippur War One of two PT-76s from the NVA 202nd Armored Regiment, destroyed by US M48 Pattons, from the 1/69th Armored battalion, during the Battle of Ben Het, March 3, 1969, Vietnam. [18] The M60 was designed as a replacement for the M48 Patton and is indeed based on the same chassis. The M60 was the last U ...
While there were several American experiments in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the interwar period there was reduced development due to the low expenditure on war material following the US non-interventionist policy and the ...
British Centurion Mk 3, a first generation main battle tank at Eastbourne Redoubt. Medium tanks gradually evolved into the new concept of the main battle tank.This transition happened gradually in the 1950s, as it was realized that medium tanks could carry guns (such as the US 90 mm gun, Soviet 100mm D-10 tank gun, and especially the British L7 105 mm gun) that could penetrate any practical ...
The M46 Patton is an American medium tank designed to replace the M26 Pershing and M4 Sherman.It was one of the U.S Army's principal medium tanks of the early Cold War, with models in service from 1949 until the mid-1950s.
During the Cold War, NATO and the Warsaw Pact both had large tank formations present in Europe. The following gives the number of armoured formations and tank strength as of 1981/1982 for Warsaw Pact and NATO member countries. These include formations and vehicles deployed outside Europe, such as North America or the Asiatic USSR.
The T54 was a series of prototype American tanks of the 1950s with three different turrets, all armed with a 105 mm gun, mounted on the M48 Patton chassis. The T54 had a conventional turret with an autoloader with 3 shells, the T54E1 had an oscillating design with an autoloader, and the T54E2 had a conventional turret with a human loader.
American M1A1 Abrams tanks in Iraq in 1991 during the Gulf War. Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images "It's better than T-72, T-62, and even Russian T-90," a Ukrainian tank commander recently told ...
Pages in category "Cold War tanks of the United States" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .