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Israel Is Prepared to Fight Iran But Is Iran Prepared to Fight Israel? It’s possible that Iran’s best hope for actually destroying Israel would be to launch a ground invasion. Iran regularly calls for, and threatens, the complete destruction of Israel, but what could it actually do about it? Apart from the obvious risk of some kind of future nuclear attack, and an ongoing threat of terrorism, what kind of actual threat would Iran pose to Israel? Clearly, Iran does not have comparable airpower, given that Israel is already expanding its operational fleet of fifth-generation F-35 jets and o...

When Moscow intervened in Syria in 2015 on behalf the beleaguered regime of Bashar al-Assad, it also transferred around thirty T-90As to the Syrian Arab Army, as well as upgraded T-62Ms and T-72s.

M60 Rules: Check Out the 'Senior' Tank That Keeps Going to War Egypt maintains one of the largest fleets of M60s – and has some 300 M60A1 and 850 M60A3 variants still in service, while Saudi Arabia has nearly 400 in service. In the summer of 2020, an M60 Patton tank rolled off a trailer and took its place of honor at Wayne County Veterans Memorial Park in Richmond, Indiana. The Cold War behemoth, along with a pair of naval guns, was donated to the park last year. The M60 had previously been on display for more than two decades at the recently shuttered Howe Military Academy, and it fitting...

Can Turkey Really Build Its Own Tank? In 2019, Turkish officials set an ambitious, two year timeline for the Altay program, stating that by 2021, the main battle tank would be fielded. Here's What You Need to Know: Ankara insists the Altay is a fully-Turkish design, but South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem may provide some of the crucial technology. Putting it simply, Turkish armor isn’t exactly the most modern. In addition to early Cold War-era American M48 and M60 tanks, Turkey also fields several German-built Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 main battle tanks. Though fairly formidable when introduce...

Britain is Thinking of Buying Leopard Tanks from Germany Adopting the German-built Leopard 2 could be the right move for the United Kingdom—as it could allow it to invest in other areas of defense. Here's What You Need To Remember: The British have two options - try to upgrade some of their older Challenger tanks, or buy new Leopards from Germany. The irony of Britain, the country that invented the tank, buying from Germany, against whom that invention was targeted, has been noted. More than 104 years after the British Army adopted the first tanks, which were deployed on the western front ...