Key point: China has finally fielded a first-class main battle tank. China has a lot of tanks. Like, eight to nine thousand of them. Who else would bother to maintain such a ridiculous number? The ...

However, the majority of Beijing’s tanks are old designs, particularly Type 59 and 69 tanks more or less directly copied from the 50s-era Soviet T-54 tank. Such is their profligacy that I once had the ...

The State Concern Ukroboronprom, in partnership with a NATO country, has launched the production of 125-mm shells for tanks used by Ukrainian defenders. Source: Press service of Ukroboronprom Quote: ...

February 16, 2024: After two decades of development the U.S. Army’s new XM-AMP Advanced Multi-Purpose 120mm tank round is finally ready to be issued for use by 120mm M1 tank guns. The new shells ...

February 2, 2023: Russia reported that they had 2,600 tanks available at the time of February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. There was visible evidence that nearly 1,600 were lost during the first few ...