The legendary M1 Abrams is entering a new era with the M1E3 upgrade—lighter, smarter, and deadlier than ever. Packed with ...

If lightweight armor strong enough to hold off tank rounds and certain kinds of Anti-Tank Guided Missiles is not yet here, future armored Army vehicles will need to rely upon sensors, active ...

South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem has surged as a global defense supplier, winning deals for K2 Black Panther tanks and K808 ...

Today’s armor Soldiers are helping to inform early development and engineering decisions on the Army’s next tank through Virtual Prototyping. A company of Soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat ...

India and China have both invested in their armored forces since the 1962 war on their disputed border in the Himalayas. The armor that both sides fielded during another recent period of heightened ...

A larger gun would also “future-proof” the M1, allowing it to defeat future tanks with heavier armor. A compromise resulted, in which the M1 would be initially manufactured with the M68 gun, but would ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A two-man crew means a smaller tank, but it could also mean an overworked crew—are two people enough to fix a broken track or stay up all night on radio watch?

A U.S. soldier moves down a road while controlling an unmanned vehicle at a training range in Hawaii. (Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal/DoD) Though the current main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, is ...

Ahead of an attack, a U.S. tank platoon approaches its assault position and establishes a coil. The platoon leader orders her loader to “deploy drone.” Without climbing out of his hatch, the loader ...

Pro-Russian troops and tanks on the outskirts of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 20. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters) The Russo-Ukraine war is still raging in all its fury ...