Developed after WWII to counter Soviet heavies, the M103 carried a 120mm gun and thick armor, weighing over 60 tons. Deployed with the U.S. Marines and briefly the Army, it proved powerful but plagued ...

Key point: In the 1940s and 1950s, the Soviets, British, and French all fielded heavy tanks. The United States had fielded the forty-six-ton M-26 Pershing at the the end of World War II as a heavy ...

Key point: The U.S. Army experimented after 1945 with various heavy tank designs. By 1945, the U.S. Army had cause to regret one of its most fateful choices of World War II: the decision not to build ...

Born in the Cold War and built to counter Soviet heavy armor, the M103 was America’s last true heavy tank - yet it remains one of the least known. In this video, we uncover the story behind its brief ...