In the aftermath of World War 2, the landscape of armored warfare underwent a seismic shift. The United States, recognizing ...

At the U.S. Army First Division Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, you can see a real-life version of the M48 Patton Tank. The nickname on the turret reads “Snoopy,” but this was anything but a ...

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Shepherdsville Amazon Warriors paint a M48 Patton tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky Sept. 4, 2024. (Photo Credit: Savannah Baird; Fort Knox News) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / ...

The M48 Patton Tank, Explained Even as the M47 entered production, the U.S. military began the development of an entirely new design. This resulted in the introduction of the M48 Patton .

This factory foursome ended up with a total of 12,000 M48 tanks over a nine-year span. The tank weighed 49.6 tons, with a length of 30 feet 6 inches (9.3 meters), a height of 10 feet 2 inches ...

The Flying Heritage Collection’s new M48A1 Patton tank has taken the long way around to its final destination. The tank was built in the United States and then sold to the Kingdom of Jordan in ...

A frontal view of US Army Central's historic M48 Patton Tank, parked in a protective booth while undergoing paint application, at the Logistics Readiness Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky, December 3, 2019.

The next incremental upgrade to the M48, then, was a new tank entirely: the more-heavily-armored M60, with a more powerful diesel engine and armed with the M68 gun. It would be replaced, in turn ...

A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". FORT KNOX, Kentucky - A Cold-War-era tank that has served as a ...