Tank Battles of the Cold War, 1948–1991

Tank Battles of the Cold War, 1948–1991
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Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781526778048
ISBN-13 : 1526778041
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Book Synopsis Tank Battles of the Cold War, 1948–1991 by : Anthony Tucker-Jones

Download or read book Tank Battles of the Cold War, 1948–1991 written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield. The Arab-Israeli wars witnessed some of the biggest tank battles of all time, and tanks played key roles in conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan as well as in the Iran-Iraq War and the wars fought between India and Pakistan. But then in the mid-1960s anti-tank weapons became ever deadlier and the Mechanised Infantry Fighting Vehicle (MIFV), which was designed to support infantry and fight tanks, emerged and the heyday of the tank was over. Chapters cover each major phase in the evolution of the tank and of tank warfare during the period, from the battles fought in the late 1940s and 1950s with Second World War armoured vehicles like the T-34 and the Sherman, through to the designs common in the 1960s and 1970s like the T-55, Centurion, Challenger and M60 Patton, to the confrontation between the M1 Abrams and the T-72 during the Gulf War in 1991. Technical and design developments are important elements throughout the story, but so are dramatic changes in tactics and armaments which mean the tank has an increasingly uncertain role in modern warfare.


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