Article Summary - The U.S. Army is doubling down on heavy armor with the new 60-ton M1E3 Abrams, asking $723.5 million in FY26 to move it into serial production. -The bet: a lighter, hybrid-powered ...

By early 2026, Ukraine received 80 M1A1 Abrams tanks in its fight against the Russian invasion that began in February 2022.

Intended to function as land ships with the firepower and mobility that could shatter the deadlock of trench warfare during World War I, the first tanks deployed in 1916 were massive, lumbering, and ...

The war in Ukraine has shown how vulnerable armored vehicles can be to attacks by cheap, expendable drones, threatening the tank’s century-long primacy on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine has shown ...

Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades. The United States military’s M1 ...