The U.S. Army has canceled the M10 Booker armored vehicle program, just two years after its unveiling, in a move to cut ...

He helped integrate airborne armor for the division’s rapid deployment capabilities and was part of the first Sheridan tank element from the 82nd to deploy during Operations Desert Shield and ...

The M8 concept was created back in the 1990s to replace the M551 Sheridan light tank for the American airborne forces. Therefore, when the command of the 82nd Airborne Division formulated the request ...

Soldiers of the 46th Separate Airborne Brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have released a video showing the destruction of a group of Russian armoured vehicles. Source ...

Well, the amphibious M551 light tank, better known as the Sheridan, wasn't the worst of its kind to enter combat, far from it. Still, it was hardly anything to write home about most of the time ...

In the annals of U.S. Army history, the M551 Sheridan holds a distinctive place as the last light tank designed for airborne operations and rapid deployment. Developed during the Cold War to counter ...

In the end, the Army spent $1.3 billion on the M551 Sheridan “Armored Reconaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle”—which was definitely a tank, regardless of the nomenclature—and produced more ...

The M551 Sheridan, a light tank developed by the US Army for airborne operations and river crossings, served from 1969 to 1997. Despite vulnerabilities, it saw combat in Vietnam, Panama, and the ...

Ukraine’s separate air-assault force is transforming one of its oldest brigades into a German brigade. The 25th Airborne Brigade earlier this month revealed, in a photo it posted on-line, that ...

The Sheridan took shape in the late 1950s. February 1957 saw the beginning of an ambitious project, the next step in U.S. tank creation, with the work of the Ad Hoc Group on Armament for Future ...