After the end of World War II, tank design underwent a revolution. While heavy tanks like the King Tiger, M26 Pershing and IS-3 dominated lighter tanks in armament and armor, they were expensive to ...

Object 477, Object 775, and Object-640 (Black Eagle) were three experimental Russian-built tanks that never went into mass production. Nevertheless, the unique innovations used in them form the basis ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: None of these tanks was completely dysfunctional, however – and all contained radical new ideas that would later be reused elsewhere. The United States fielded a ...

Built in the 1950s, the T95 series introduced smoothbore guns, composite armor, infrared rangefinders, and gas turbines decades before the Abrams. Nine prototypes proved the concept worked but were ...

When a tank comes with built-in adjectives like "super" and "heavy," the name speaks for itself. However, the fear such a title could strike into soldiers' hearts never was, as only two prototypes of ...

The T95 was a prototype medium tank developed between 1955 and 1959. The vehicle's design implemented numerous components and features new to U.S. tanks, including composite armor and a smoothbore gun ...

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