The U.S. Army has canceled its planned M1A2 SEPv4 tank upgrade, a program that would have pushed the Abrams to a “too heavy” 80 tons, after a damning Army Science Board report warned the tank “will ...

The M1 Abrams was developed in the 1970s for one primary reason: to defeat the new Soviet T-72, which had rendered the U.S. Army’s aging M60 “Patton” tank obsolete. -Chrysler won the $4.9 billion ...

The U.S. Army is fast-tracking a new main battle tank, the M1E3, designed to be lighter, faster and more survivable — reflecting lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. General Dynamics Land ...

It is unclear how the Skala regiment will employ the tanks, but the unit is known for taking the fight to the Russians. The Ukrainian Army’s 425th Assault Regiment “Skala,” famed for its success in ...

Intended to function as land ships with the firepower and mobility that could shatter the deadlock of trench warfare during World War I, the first tanks deployed in 1916 were massive, lumbering, and ...

Despite the Abrams’ key capabilities, the older M1 models delivered to Ukraine have struggled to survive against Russia’s more advanced arsenal of anti-tank weaponry. A staggering 87 percent of ...

Figure 1. General Creighton W. Abrams smoking a cigar. (Image retrieved from National Archives) Few military leaders have left a legacy so powerful that the Army engraved their name into its most ...