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Tank List (International Tanks from WW2 to the Present)

Notes for the above table.

Nation—The country that designed and built the tank. This nation is also the one that was the largest user of that tank.

Model—How that particular tank was identified by the nation that built it.

Year of Use—Years in which the tank was in use. If only one year is given, then that tank is still in use somewhere, and, the older the tank, the fewer the number currently operating.

Protection—The maximum armor protection on the tank, in millimeters. This is usually the armor on the front of the tank, often the turret. The armor on the sides and rear is usually half or less of the greatest armor thickness.

Penetration - Maximum armor that the tank's main gun can penetrate at normal combat range (five hundred meters in World War II, one thousand meters thereafter).

Production—Number of that model produced. There was some variation among some of the models shown. The U.S. M-4 was equipped with a number of different engines and got somewhat more powerful guns as the war went on, and after the war (Israel installed 105mm guns in M-4s during the 1960s). There were several versions of the M-48 and M-60, the difference largely con fined to engines and fire-control systems.

You can see several things in the chart, the main one being that each side continually leapfrogged the other in armor and penetration during World War II. The "tank race" went on at a more leisurely pace after World War II, but that was partially because there was no major war going on.