Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2020) Main Battle Tank – At Least 9 Built, Probably More 10th October 2020 marked the 75th Anniversary of the foundation of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the far-left party of the totalitarian one-party Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). This took place in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, through […]
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United Kingdom (1977-1985) Main Battle Tank – 1 Built The Chieftain tank replacement? The final decades of the Cold War saw a generational change in Western tanks as they faced off against the armies of the Warsaw Pact across Central Europe. The Soviet-led forces were dominated by tanks such as the T-55, T-72 and variants […]
United States of America (11 July 1991) Official figures from the US military for their losses of personnel during the 1990-1991 Gulf War are well recorded, with a total of 298 men and women killed and 467 wounded across the services. Losses of equipment, however, are less clear. Wikipedia, for example, lists the loss or […]
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B2 Centauro
Italian Republic (2019) Wheeled Tank Destroyer – 1 Prototype Built The Centauro II MGS 120/105 is a wheeled tank destroyer built by the Consortium IVECO OTO-Melara (CIO). It will be delivered to the Italian Army, or Esercito Italiano (EI), with the name “B2 Centauro”. It is the evolution of the B1 Centauro, which was the […]
Argentina (1979-Present) Light Main Battle Tank/Medium Tank – 231 Built The Tanque Argentino Mediano (TAM) has, since the early ’80s, equipped the forces of the Ejército Argentino [Eng. Argentinian Army]. Designed and developed by the West German company of Thyssen-Henschel, the TAM’s history is full of inconsistencies and exaggerations, primarily the fact that it is […]
United Kingdom (1954) Test Vehicle – 1 Built In 1954, the British, of C. A. Parsons Ltd. made history. At a public display of armored vehicles, they unveiled an odd-looking, silver turretless tank hull. This vehicle was a world first. Inside the engine bay was a new, experimental turbine engine. The vehicle was a testbed, […]
United Kingdom (1953) Heavy Gun Tank – Approximately 180 Built On September 7th, 1945, military heads of the Western Powers were horrified by what they saw rumbling towards them along the Charlottenburger Chaussee in central Berlin during the 1945 Victory Parade celebrating the end of the Second World War. During that parade, the increasingly threatening […]
United States of America (1981) Light Utility Vehicle – 11+ Built EMT XM966 Guided Missile weapons carrier variant. Source: XM966HMMWV.com Starting from the late 1970s, the US Army was anxious to replace its mixed fleet of utility and light vehicles with a new general purpose multirole vehicle which had a high degree of mobility. Starting […]
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Medium Tank M45 (T26E2)
United States of America (1945) Medium Tank – 185 Built In 1945, after a long and convoluted development process, the T26E1 – that lead to the M26 Pershing – entered service, and saw action in the closing months of the Second World War in Europe. The T26/M26 was armed with a powerful, high-velocity 90 mm […]
United States of America (1969-1985) Development Program The origins of the HMMWV go back to 1969 when FMC (formerly the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation), based in California, started work on a high mobility scout car known as the XR-311. XR-311 fitted for convoy/escort duty with .50 cal. heavy machine-gun fitted to a ring mount […]