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Tank is an armored vehicle having caterpillar traction and armed with machine guns, cannon, rockets, or flame throwers. The tank, together with the airplane, opened up modern warfare, which had been immobilized and stalemated by the use of rifled guns (see mechanized warfare).

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History
Exactly 100 years ago, Colonel Ernest Swinton came up with his "germ of an idea" for the tank. It was largely through his vision that tanks were to become one of the most significant military developments of the 20th Century. The first tank, christened Mother, was produced for the British Army in 1915. A year later the armored vehicles were first used in battle, on the Somme.

Mark I
One of the earliest models, the Mark I, on show at Hatfield Park in 1916.

Whippet
The Whippet, which appeared in 1918, was celebrated for being lighter and faster than previous models, thanks to its two engines. But it was notoriously difficult to drive

Maus
The German-made Maus was the heaviest tank produced, weighing 189 tones. Developed in the early 1940s, it carried a six-man crew but could only reach a top road speed of 20kph.

Sherman tank
A World War II workhorse, the Sherman tank was used by the Americans and the British.

Post World War-II Tanks

Chieftain
A British main battle tank of the 1970s and 80s, the Chieftain saw service in the divided Berlin, among other locations.

Challenger tank
The British Challenger tank was active in the Gulf War of 1991. But at £2m apiece, this bulky and noisy machine is increasingly seen as too easy a target for missiles.

Developed jointly by Britain's Defense Evaluation and Research Agency and Vickers, this plastic tank is designed to be virtually invisible to satellite, heat-seeking weapons and radar detectors. It was unveiled in March.

GRIZZLY
The GRIZZLY [initially designated the Breacher] is an armored vehicle designed to breach complex obstacles including mines, berms, wire, rubble, and tank-ditches. The GRIZZLY will breach obstacles with minimal preparation creating safe lanes for other vehicles in the dominant maneuver force with little or no loss in momentum. The GRIZZLY's obstacle clearing features include a full-width mine-clearing blade and a powered, extensible excavating arm.

M60 Panther
The M60 Panther is an M60 Patton tank specially modified for mine clearing missions. Modifications include the removal the turret, and installation of mine rollers on the front of the vehicle and Omnitech's Standardized Teleoperation System (STS). STS-equipped M60s have cleared antipersonnel and antitank mines in Bosnia and Kosovo. Omnitech's STS kit allows these vehicles to be operated from a safe distance, preventing injury to military personnel involved in this extremely hazardous mission.

The STS was originally developed by Omnitech Robotics International LLC (ORILLC) for the Unmanned Ground Vehicles/Systems Joint Program Office, US Marine Corp, and US Army. Initial application of STS converted two D7 tractors, one M1 Panther II tank, and two High-Mobility Multipurpose Vehicles (HMMWVs) also known as Humvees to unmanned teleoperation. Now, nearly 60 vehicles are equipped with STS kits for unmanned operation, including tanks, tractors, HMMWVs, Skytrak forklift, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), and trucks.

MBT-70
The MBT-70 was a joint US and West German program started in 1963 to replace the M-60. The tank featured an auto-loading gun which could fire armor piercing rounds or anti-tank missiles. The tank also featured spaced armor and a laser rangefinder. In addition to a machine gun, the tank had a remotely controlled 20mm gun which was stored in the turret when not in use. The crew of three stayed in the turret for nuclear, chemical, and biological protection. The driver would be in a separate capsule on the left of the turret which kept him facing forward as the turret rotated. The suspension was hydraulic and able to change the height and hull angle of the tank.

It was hoped the tank would stay in service into the 1990s, but only twelve prototypes were built. The Germans were rightfully suspicious of the combination gun and missile launcher, and Congress was annoyed at the increasing costs of the program, with prices of over $1 million per tank expected by 1970. The Army made do with the M-60 until the M-1 was introduced in the 1980s.

M-41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank

M-41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank and M-42 Gun Motor Carriage
Introduced in 1951 and still used internationally, the Walker Bulldog was designed as a replacement for the M-24 Chaffee and mounted a 76mm gun.

M-47 Patton
With an M-26 Pershing hull and the turret of an experimental tank, the M-47 was an "interim" vehicle built during the Korean War until replaced by the M-48. Armed with a 90mm gun, the Patton remained in service internationally for some time.

M-103
A development fiasco, 200 M-103 heavy tanks with 120mm guns were built between 1952 and 1954 to counter heavy Soviet designs. After extensive modifications, the tank was used primarily by the Marines, but a few were used by the Army in Europe.

M1 / IPM1 Abrams Main Battle Tank
Designed in the 1970's by the Land Systems Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in response to the U.S. Army's MBT-70 program, the first M1 rolled off the assembly line in 1978. After two years of acceptance trials, the first of these vehicles was delivered to the US Army on February 28, 1980. By 1985, evaluations of field service had prompted the first modification requests, and production shifted to the M1A1. The first M1A1's were delivered to units in August of 1985. The Army has converted 368 older M1s to M1A2s. An additional 580 M1s are being upgraded to A2s under a five-year contract awarded in FY1996, with a total of 998 M1 upgrades planned. In 1999 the Army began upgrading M1s to the M1A2 System Enhancement Program (SEP) configuration. The SEP embeds digitization capabilities inside the Abrams’ electronic architecture, eliminating the requirement for electronic appliqués.

M1A2 Abrams

Best tanks in the World

M1 Abrams--USA

T-90--Russia

Sabra—Israel

Challenger 2-UK

Leopard 2-Germany

Future Tanks British defense companies are expected to benefit from contracts worth £180m to design a new tank for the British and the United States armies. The new armored vehicle will replace the existing British Scimitar light tanks.

It will use similar technology to the stealth bomber to make it invisible to radar and other detection systems while it carries out reconnaissance in hostile territory.

Tank of the future?
The current trend is for smaller, lighter tanks. But eventually they may end up looking like this concept tank from the arcade game Battlezone II.