The United States Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower program ... it had troublesome armament and inadequate armor. The M551 Sheridan light tank is largely remembered as a curiosity, ...
The U.S. Army planned to buy 237 tanks weighing 15,900 kg (without additional armour, up to 21,000 kg maximum), capable of being transported aboard a C-130 Hercules (or even three—besides four ...
The Sherman was still used in Korea and the Vietnam War, but it was the M48 Patton and later the M551 Sheridan light tank that became ... It is named after US Army General Creighton Williams ...
FORT KNOX, Kentucky — A Cold-War-era tank that has served as a monument for both the Third Army and US Army Central has received a bright and shiny new paint job just in time for Christmas.