Cold War Era Tanks

Japanese type 90 tank at the jgsdf public information center.

Cold war era tanks. However during world war ii most armies employed tanks and production levels reached thousands each month. Third army during world war ii and one of the earliest american advocates for the use of tanks in battle. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order 1 to z. Tanks were an important weapons system in world war ii.

Tank usage doctrine and production varied widely among the combatant nations. The cold war saw a surge in tank design and production with each side attempting to out do the other through evermore impressive end products. Starting from the sundry families of light medium and heavy tanks the strategists and tacticians of both nato and the warsaw pact got to work revising the tactics and technologies inherited from ww2. Tank the post cold war era is the period in world history from the collapse of the soviet union in 1991 to the present.

After the second world war the main tank model used by uk forces was the centurion. It was introduced in 1945 but was widely used into the 50s and 60s even seeing combat on frontlines into the. The classic main battle tanks of the 1950s were the british centurion the soviet t 55 series and the us m47 and m48 series which saw continuous updates throughout the cold war. From the early half of the 20th century tanks were initially obtained from other countries.

This article on military tanks deals with the history of tanks employed by various military forces belonging to the kuomintang and communist party of china within china. The tank belongs to the patton family of tanks named after general george s. The post cold war era is the period in world history from the collapse of the soviet union on december 25 1991 to the present. Patton commander of the u s.

The m47 patton was the second tank of the patton series and one of the u s army s principal medium gun tanks of the cold war. Even though tanks in the inter war years were the subject of widespread research production was limited to relatively small numbers in a few countries. This led to the development of new armored vehicles including main battle tanks mbts armored personnel carriers apcs and other specialized vehicles. Eventually indigenously designed chinese tanks started manufacture and became used during the cold war and towards the modern era.