An armor crewman loads 7.62mm rounds into an Abrams tank during training at Fort Hood, Texas. (Sgt. Sarah Kirby/Army) Army planners are building a new type of battalion for the light tank design that ...

The war in Ukraine has generated renewed interest in the role of tanks on the modern battlefield. Even before the war, some militaries were developing "light tanks" to complement heavier main battle ...

What makes a tank a failure? Does it have to have a drivetrain so unreliable you have to carry a spare transmission in the trunk? Does it need to ignite its ammo box and send the turret into low-Earth ...

The light tank has been one of the few tank variants to survive the development of the main battle tank—in which technological advancements have rendered all previous weight variants obsolete—and has ...

March 28, 2024: The U.S. Army is receiving 504 M10 light tanks to provide front line firepower for infantry units. The M10 Booker tank is a 38-ton armored vehicle that looks like a tank but is ...

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Three years after a deadly clash, India and China's disputed border in the Himalayas remains tense. Both sides are beefing up their presence there, basing more troops and building more infrastructure.

It wasn't long after coming through victorious in the biggest conflict of all time — World War II — that the Soviet Union and the United States ceased being allies and instead engaged in a ...