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Why Has the M1 Abrams Tank Lasted So Long?

Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades.
In 1965, it was in a village of this name that a battle, which would turn a war decisively in India’s favour and deal “a fitting reply” to an armada of Pakistani tanks rolling towards Amritsar, Punjab ...
The war in Ukraine has shown how vulnerable armored vehicles can be to attacks by cheap, expendable drones, threatening the tank’s century-long primacy on the battlefield.
Calling the Sialkot sector offensive India’s largest armoured thrust since World War II is not hyperbole. It reflects the ...
In September 1944, a massive German Panther tank counterattack threatened to stop Patton’s Third Army cold. Outgunned and outnumbered, American Sherman crews used fog, guts, and cunning tactics to ...
By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine ...
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The Patton tank paradox

This episode examines the Patton tank paradox—the story of how the M46, M47, M48, and M60 “Patton” series bridged the gap between World War II armor and the modern main battle tank. We trace how ...
The infantry's history to 250 years of U.S. military standard-issue weapons, from the smoothbore musket to the M7 rifle ...
ICE’s vicious inhumane implementation of Donald J. Trump’s heinous immigration policies have exposed fissures in the Black community. The cracks ICE reveals follow familiar ideological and political ...
Indonesian and Australian leaders signed a new bilateral security treaty that both governments say will deepen security ties ...
Back bends! Broken noses! Short shorts! The return of Catfish! All the wild and crazy fun from Redneck Brawl 12!