The Panzer 61 was a 39-ton tank developed and manufactured by Eidgenossische Konstruktionswerkstatte Thun for the Swiss Army, entering service in 1965. It featured a 105mm L7 rifled gun, mounted on a rather domed turret, protected by 120mm-thick steel armor. It was also armed with two 7.5mm machine guns. Although it was based on the [...]

The top ten main battle tanks on the list were armored vehicles used in combat in direct confrontation or massively deployed during the peak of the Cold War as deterring armored forces: Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Europe, etc. Although the Challenger 1 and M1 Abrams were introduced in the early 1980s, they are excluded [...]

Nowadays, the top ten modern main battle tanks share more or less the same characteristics, concerning weapons, armor, speed and range. However, there are tanks that are above others because of the quality of the materials and engines used in their construction and the prestige of the firms and country that make them, and because they [...]

If machine guns and modern artillery pieces turned the offensive and dynamic war of the first months into a static trench warfare, tanks in WWI helped infantry troops overcome trenches, barbed wire, and the wall of fire put up by machine guns. So, all of them were primarily designed as infantry support armored vehicles to [...]

The following World War II top ten tank list is based on the type of gun they mounted, armor, speed, effectiveness, as in the number of armored vehicles destroyed in combat, and the number of battles and theaters of operation they were used. Used by best tank aces in the war, such as Kurt Knispel, [...]

The Ram was a Canadian medium tank developed from the American M3 by Montreal Locomotive Works, entering service in late 1941. Although more than 1,000 tanks were manufactured, it did not see combat action as a gun tank and was used in crew training in Canada. The Ram Mk II version was armed with a [...]