Key point: In the 1940s and 1950s, the Soviets, British, and French all fielded heavy tanks. The United States had fielded the forty-six-ton M-26 Pershing at the the end of World War II..

The StuG III, or Sturmgeschütz III, was the most produced German armored fighting vehicle in WWII. It could penetrate the front armor of tanks like ... needed a mobile heavy gun to dislodge ...

A Ukrainian brigade made up of thousands of soldiers trained in France and armed with French-supplied light battle tanks, artillery, and heavy weaponry is about to enter the fight against Russia.