Cold War Tank

For example the centurion began life with the highly effective 17 pounder 76 2 mm gun but was upgraded to 20 pounder 84 mm and then 105 mm main armament by 1959 with improved fire control and new engines.

Cold war tank. This led to the development of new armored vehicles including main battle tanks mbts armored personnel carriers apcs and other specialized vehicles. 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. 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.

Third army during world war ii and one of the earliest american advocates for the use of tanks in battle. These include formations and vehicles deployed outside europe such as in north america or the asiatic ussr. 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. After the second world war the main tank model used by uk forces was the centurion.

The following gives the number of armoured formations and tank strength as of 1981 1982 for warsaw pact and nato member countries. During the cold war nato and the warsaw pact both had large tank formations present in europe. World war ii tank destroyers su 76 su 85 su 100 su 122 su 152 isu 122 isu 152 object 704 upgraded version to the isu 152. 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.

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. From world war ii through the cold war hanford churned out plutonium for more than 60 000 nuclear weapons including the atomic bomb that razed nagasaki japan in august 1945. Redirected from post cold war tanks japanese type 90 tank at the jgsdf public information center. The tank belongs to the patton family of tanks named after general george s.