Key Points and Summary - Britain’s Challenger 3 is more than a mid-life refresh. It’s a deep rebuild that replaces the old rifled cannon with a high-pressure 120mm smoothbore, adds a fully digital ...

The MBT-70 tank program was a great idea born out of the Cold War. In the 1960s, tensions were rising between East and West, and there was a very real possibility that the Soviet Union, with its ...

It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...

A tank turret is the brain and brawn of an armored fighting vehicle, housing its most critical functions: the main gun, targeting systems, and a complement of crew. From the outside, it might seem ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank was ...