The advent of advanced anti-tank weapons has pushed tanks further away from the front lines—but it would be a mistake to ...
Key Point: “Short of some hitherto unforeseen advancement that renders them obsolete, tanks will be one of those invaluable assets for a long time to come.” Since their debut in September 1915, tanks ...
Revelations that German military equipment, including the Leopard 2 main battle tank (MBT), may not be faring well in the Ukraine-Russia war, has raised the spectre of drone proliferation and a ...
Those heralding the demise of the tank are premature. The tank – the tracked, armoured and heavily-armed fighting vehicle that has dominated land warfare for a century – is wounded, not dead. Drones ...
Despite having only the fourth-largest military in the world, Russia is the superpower when it comes to its supply of tanks, with 12,950 in 2020 — more than double the number of the U.S., which came ...
Having lost at least 2,000 tanks in its 14-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to source the high-tech components its needs to build new tanks, Russia has been pulling out of long-term storage ...
When disassembled the dummy tank is about the size of a duffel bag, while its portable generator is about the size of a small laser printer. When erected, which could be accomplished by two men in a ...
Military bloggers are preoccupied with an existential question this week: What role will tanks play in tomorrow's military? The U.S. Army's armor branch, once a crucial tool of conventional warfare, ...
For the rest of the 20th century the rubber tanks were still used. In the late 1980s the U.S. Army developed a decoy version of the M 1 Abrams tank. It cost only $3,300 and weighed 23 kg (about 50 ...