Tank Reef at Aqaba

The problem of disposing of unwanted armored fighting vehicles is not a new one. In fact, it can be traced back to 1919, when the armies of Europe first had to deal with the huge stocks of tanks they had so rapidly accumulated since 1916. The first and most obvious answer is to scrap them, …

Medium Tank T6 – The Birth of the Sherman

United States of America (1941) Medium Tank – 1 Built On the 2nd of September 1941, a single tank was completed and drove under its own power for the first time at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) in Maryland. It was the first of nearly 50,000 and the first U.S. designed tank to employ the now …

Assault Tank M4A3E2 Jumbo

United States of America (1944) Assault Tank – 254 Built In early 1944, the United States Army decided that they needed an up-armored version of a medium tank for an assault role for the upcoming operations in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). However, they had rejected previous plans for such a vehicle, and time …