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 ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there was fear in Washington over the Soviet Union’s superiority in armored warfare. The Chrysler M103 was certainly not an ideal ...