The illustrated directory of tanks of the world

About this book

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.