With its 1,500 shp gas turbine engine, the M1 Abrams can reach a top speed of 45 mph. Optimized to run on jet fuel, the engine is similar to the engines that propel many modern commercial aircraft.
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The M1 Abrams tank revolutionized tank warfare when it ...
This video examines the Whippet (Medium Mark A) - a British WWI medium tank built for speed and exploitation. It explores how it was designed to follow the heavier infantry tanks, its twin-engine ...
Speed over armor. Agility over brute force. The M18 Hellcat wasn’t built to take hits — it was built to never get hit. In 1944, this lightning-fast American tank destroyer took the field and rewrote ...
Military vehicle historian and armor officer Nicholas Moran rates a tank scene from "Fast & Furious 6" (2013). Moran is an armor officer on M1 Abrams tanks and M3 Bradleys, with combat deployments in ...