Key point: In the 1940s and 1950s, the Soviets, British, and French all fielded heavy tanks. The United States had fielded the forty-six-ton M-26 Pershing at the the end of World War II as a heavy ...

After World War II, the United States raced to counter Soviet heavy tanks with the massive M103, armed with a 120mm gun and thick armour. Born from the T43 program and designed for long-range fire ...

You don't need to be a military historian to know the names of the Abrams, Patton, Churchill, Challenger, or Tiger tanks, to name just a few well-known examples from around the world. The waters get ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Finally, in 1972 the Marines retired the M103 and ended up with the M60. And that was the end of America’s heavy-tank experiment. What doomed it was the same issue ...