Illustrated Directory of Tanks and Fighting Vehicles
Subtitle: From World War I to the Present Day (Illustrated Directory)
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: June 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780760308929
Subjects: Technology; Military Transportation Equipment; History - Military / War; Military; Military - Weapons; History / Military / Aviation; Military Science; Tanks (Military science)
First sentence: efforts the weight of main battle tanks (MBT), as they were now called, crept back up to 60 tons again. Indeed, the importance of the tank had never been greater, playing a vital role in actual combat in Korea, the Arab-Israeli wars, the Iran/Iraq wars, and, most recently, in Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf and in Russia's war against Chechnya.