War. They started out as a way to cross the muck filled trenches of the first

World War to one of the most powerful ways to attack the enemy. The

United States Armed Forces tanks have been some of the greatest of the

wide variety of tanks. The most interesting and powerful of these giants in

the United States arsenal are: the Abrams, the M60, the Sheridan, the

Patton, the Sherman, and the Chaffee models. Some of these tanks are

small and some of them are large but all of these tanks have managed to

strike fear into any country who have dared to oppose the United States at

The Abrams was created in the 1970's to counter the newest generation

of Russian tanks (Lloyd 14). The early models of the Abrams tank were

used primarily for the Cold War against the Soviet Union however few if any

shots were actually fired from there guns. Then in the early 1990's the

Abrams M1A1 was used against Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi troops in the

Gulf war. The main advantage the Abrams had over the enemy tanks here

was that because of it's thermal viewer the American troops could see

through the darkest cloud which was the case

the water. Then there is the T77E1 gun motor carriage. This was originally

M48A5. These upgrades included: full resolution digital fire, a laser range

Graham, Ian. Battle Tanks. Gloucester Press, New York.

millimeter tank gun, a 12.7 millimeter anti-aircraft gun, and a 7.62 millimeter

to a M24, and the T77E1. The M25 was most likely the best light tank that

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