Of all the weapons used in the combat zone, few have captured attention quite like the tank.
History has revealed that good tanks would make the difference between winning and losing battles.
The U.S. Army has recognised this notion and prioritized its armoured units a prime
attention to ensure battlefield success. One of the untold stories of the world’s fiercest tank
battle was just about 30 years ago in the Iraqi desert, which was considered as the
most intense tank fight in the history. It was showed that fleets of coalition, more than 3000
tanks roared through the desert like a stampede of buffalo, routing Iraq’s Russian-made tanks,
blasting them into plumes of fire and smoke in less than 36 hours during the worst desert storm.
It was just like what was showed by Abrams M1A1 rumble over the desert in northern Kuwait.
Therefore, they are no doubt to be called as “the queen of battle field”
as proving their high level of vulnerability during the warfare.
Anyway, have you ever thought how many tanks are there in total in today’s world? So, we would
like to discuss this topic in today’s episode only at this channel! Stay tune with us till the end!
The idea of a vehicle to provide troops with both mobile protection and firepower was not a new one.
However, during the First World War, the increased availability of the internal combustion engines,
armour plates and the continuous tracks, as well as the challenge of trench warfare,
all combined to facilitate the production of the tank.
When World War I ended in 1918, France had produced 3,870 tanks and Britain 2,636.
Most French tanks survived into the post-war period, these were the Renault F.T. As a result,
most other countries followed France's lead. the United States and Italy both allocated
tanks to infantry support and copied the Renault F.T. The U.S. copy was the M1917 light tank.
The only other country to produce tanks by the end of the war was Germany,
which built about 20. Further, the development of tanks continued
with significant improvement in the design and technological advances.
In regard to the total number, according to a British military consultant and commentator,
Nicholas Drummond, he tallied up all the tanks in the world and predicted that they could reach up
to 7,3000 units. Drummond added that, among these 24,000, they belong to adversaries, while another
20,000 units are in storage and at least 10,000 tanks have been refurbished over the last decade.
Additionally, Russia with its 12,950 tanks unsurprisingly has the biggest armour holdings.
The United States is the number-two tank power with 6,333 vehicles. China’s 5,800 tanks make it
the number three of the armour power. However, Germany has only 236 tanks in its inventory.
Interestingly, that doesn’t mean that the German army is inferior to the others.
After all, Germany’s Leopard IIs are some of the most advanced fighting
vehicles in the world today with the updated design and technology.
It can be concluded that the lower on the rankings of the total numbers isn’t a definitive measure of
ground combat power. All this is to say that simple numbers don’t tell a complete story.
The army with more tanks isn’t necessarily the more powerful army.
While talking about which is the best among all is likely to be another story
and each country seems to have “their own queen of the battle” just like Germany that proud of their
Leopards, the U.S. with the Abrams, probably Armata for Rusia, France with their Leclerc,
South Korea with their K2 Black Panther and probably China with their ZTZ99 MBT!
That’s all for today, thanks for watching!.