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Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank Volume 1 (Reprint ed.). Echo Point Books & Media. ISBN 978-1626541597. LCCN 84016586. OL 2854160M. Hunnicutt, Richard P. (1988). Firepower: A History of the American Heavy Tank. Presidio Press. Hunnicutt, Richard P. (1971). Pershing: A History of the Medium Tank T20 Series. Presidio Press.
The Indian Removal Act is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, authorizing the U.S. government to negotiate the removal of Native American tribes of the southeastern United States to federal territory in what is now Oklahoma. 1831: Mexico ratifies the boundaries with the United States originally established by the Adams–Onís Treaty ...
United States – United States Marine Corps: In 2020 the Marine Corps announced the disbandment of its tank units, citing a pivot towards amphibious warfare by implementing Force Design 2030. [353] All 450 of the Marine Corps M1 Abrams MBTs were transferred to the U.S. Army with withdrawal from Marine Corps service being completed in May 2021.
Type: Light tank Year introduced: 1963 Armament: 85mm type 62-85TC rifled main gun, 7.62mm type 59T coaxial machine gun, 7.62mm type 59T bow-mounted machine gun, 12.7mm Type 54 anti-aircraft heavy ...
The first American-produced heavy tank was the 43.5-ton Mark VIII (sometimes known as the "Liberty"), a US–British development of the successful British heavy tank design, intended to equip the Allied forces. Armed with two 6-pounder cannons and five rifle-caliber machine guns, it was operated by an 11-man crew, and had a maximum speed of 6.5 ...
An American-West German joint project to develop a new main battle tank. Never entered service. Vickers MBT Mark 1: 1964 1965 United Kingdom: 376 38 t 535 hp 480 km British private venture design for export. 1965 India: 2,200 39 t 535 hp 530 km Vijayanta was the Indian license-built version of British Vickers MBT Mark 1. 1970 Kuwait: 70 38 t 535 hp
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
The T54 was a series of prototype American tanks of the 1950s with three different turrets, all armed with a 105 mm gun, mounted on the M48 Patton chassis. The T54 had a conventional turret with an autoloader with 3 shells, the T54E1 had an oscillating design with an autoloader, and the T54E2 had a conventional turret with a human loader.