Conceptualizing, developing, and building a prototype of any kind is often the result of a need. This was no different with the emergence of tanks, which were conceived of to try and end the stalemate ...

The U.S. Army has kicked off a high-stakes competition to field a new generation of light tanks, pitting BAE Systems against ...

The U.S. Army is ripping up its own timeline for the next-generation M1E3 Abrams, hustling early prototypes into soldiers’ hands years sooner than planned. Instead of waiting for a perfectly polished ...

M1E3 Abrams tank early Prototype on display. - Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Army, cropped and resized, Public Domain. One of the most prominent recent examples of threats on the battlefield, of course, is ...

During the 1960s, the United States and West Germany joined together to develop a new main battle tank dubbed the MBT-70. The idea was to develop new platform that could counter the threat posed by ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The bid by General Dynamics is a whole new tank and is considerably larger than BAE’s smaller bid. General Dynamics’ prototype features a modified M1 Abrams main ...

In the early days of the Cold War, both American and Soviet war planners assumed that the next European war would be nuclear right from the get-go. Strategic thinking was of the opinion that since the ...