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 ...
When the tank was originally conceived during the First World War by the “Landship Committee,” the concept was to have a lumbering vehicle that would be truly massive in size. That proved to be ...