The M1 Abrams main battle tank has undergone significant evolution since its 1980 service entry to remain a dominant force. -The original M1 featured a 105mm gun, Chobham armor, and a gas turbine ...

Be they trundling through the mud of Western Europe, kicking up dust on the plains of North Africa or forging a path through the snow of the Eastern Front; the tank defined the war on land between ...

The German equivalent of the M4 Sherman, the Panzer IV’s ... fire reached a position 10 yards from the tank. His second shot shattered the turret. With his pistol he killed 2 of the crew as ...

Left: A World War II-era Calliope rocket launcher mounted on an M4 Sherman tank ... added two racks of rocket launchers to the turret of a Sherman tank. Although considered primitive by today's ...

This replaced the traditional turret on the M4 Sherman tank with an oscillating turret and an automatic loader, giving the M4A4 FL-10 a much higher rate of fire compared to other manually loaded ...

Still rather new to the development of tanks, it could not yet create a turret large enough to support ... wouldn't pan out at all. The iconic M4 Sherman was being produced in early 1942, with ...

The M4 Sherman tank was a big part of World War II ... Grant, depending on whether it had the U.S.-patterned turrets or the British-patterned turrets, respectively. In the case of the Sherman ...

"On some tanks, the machine guns were removed from the roof of the turret to prevent them being ... (The IDF even used modernized M4 Sherman tanks, which entered service in the early 1940s but ...

American Locomotive Company produced thousands of tanks in WWII. Perhaps the most notable were the M4 Sherman Tank and the M7 Priest. The company produced a number of other weapons as well ...

The turret design was changed three times ... suspension system and a more powerful 76mm gun. Why the M4 Sherman Is Such a Badass Tank Even more powerful was the Sherman Firefly, a conversion ...

M4 Sherman tanks rolling inland on a muddy path during ... on target while the Sherman was moving and a power-assisted turret for faster traverse. While German tank production and logistics ...

Both are “mini-tanks,” centered around a turret-mounted 25mm M243 Bushmaster ... In the early days of World War II, the soon-to-be-ubiquitous M4 Sherman tank was just entering full production ...