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: 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 ...

Key Points - The M103, America's last heavy tank, was developed in the 1950s as a direct response to formidable Soviet heavy tanks like the IS-3. Built with exceptionally thick armor and a powerful ...

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 ...

World War II era experimentations with the likes of the huge Panzer VIII Maus, a 188-ton monstrosity that never made it past the prototype stage, made one thing quite clear: There's historically been ...