| The first tanks didn't have turrets in World War I until | | | | depleted uranium. One big modern change is the |
| the development of the French light tank called the | | | | development of smooth bore guns. Older tanks had |
| FT-17. This French tank set the design of tanks to | | | | rifled tubes which helped spin the shell as it fired. This |
| modern day even thou it only had a machine gun for is | | | | helped stabile the shell in flight. Smooth bore guns last |
| main weapon. Many World War I tanks were huge | | | | longer than rifled tubes and for about the same weight |
| compared to the early days of tank in World War II. At | | | | can fire a large shell. The Original M-1 had a 105mm |
| the Start of WW2 most tanks had a 37mm cannon. | | | | main gun. The M1A3 uses a 120mm main gun as does |
| Also before World War II the development of mobile | | | | the German Leopard 2. |
| radio sets that could be used inside tanks meant that | | | | Other new weapons are the use of missiles instead of |
| tanks to work together as groups with out a person | | | | shells. Some tanks carry missiles that fire out of the |
| hanging outside of the tank with flags.During World | | | | main gun. Some are laser guided or infrared guided. |
| War 2 tanks got larger up to the point of the 50 ton | | | | Modern tanks now use wireless networking to talk to |
| Tiger tanks. With larger size meant larger weapons. | | | | helicopters, other tanks, artillery, command posts and |
| The Soviets with the IS-2 tank had the largest | | | | even local close air support aircraft. This networking |
| production tank gun of WW 2 with a 122mm cannon. | | | | will speed how fast a tank works on the modern |
| The IS-2 was the Soviet answer to the German Tiger | | | | battlefield. Working together with other battlefield |
| and King Tiger tanks which had an 88MM cannon. The | | | | weapons will make the tank more deadly and useful |
| US built the M-26 Perishing with a 90mm Cannon. | | | | for years to come. |
| Armor during WW2 was mainly steel but Post WW2 | | | | The Tank was a culmination of technology developed |
| the developed of guided missiles and SABOT rounds | | | | before World War 1. The first tank is believed to have |
| meant the development of new types of armor. With | | | | been designed by Leonardo Da Vinci in the late 15th |
| new armor and larger main guns tanks also got | | | | century. It was never built. The Army of Great Britain in |
| shorter. The closer to the ground a tank was the | | | | World War I needed a device that could break thru the |
| harder to hit. Vietnam was not a big tank war. | | | | line of trenches that the Germans were building in |
| The US mainly used tanks as mobile artillery since they | | | | World War I. Using Gasoline engines, naval steel plates |
| would sink in many of the rice paddies of Vietnam. | | | | and tracks the British built the first working tanks. They |
| The North Vietnamese did use T-34 and T-55. During | | | | were called tanks in the hope that Germans would |
| the 1972 invasion the US used helicopters armed with | | | | think they were water tanks. |
| guided missiles to destroy large numbers of North | | | | In the summer of 1915 the British tested their tanks in |
| Vietnam's Soviet built tanks. In the 1960 and 1970s | | | | England. The tanks were rushed into production and |
| tanks started to receive laser sights, night vision and | | | | were on the battlefields of France in Sept 1916. The |
| other enhancements to increase their ability to fight. | | | | first tanks were slow but they were invulnerable to |
| The Israelis developed explosive armor to defeat | | | | machine guns and rifles. Only artillery or mechanical |
| shaped charge rounds and missiles. British and | | | | breakdown could stop most tanks. |
| American researches came up with armor based on | | | | |