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 ...

Key Points – The M551 Sheridan light tank, designed for airborne forces with air-drop and amphibious capabilities, was rushed into the Vietnam War in 1969. -Its mobility and 152mm gun ...

Key Points: The M551 Sheridan was a unique US Army light tank developed in the 1960s, designed to be air-droppable and armed with a novel 152mm gun/missile launcher system. -Rushed into service in ...

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 ...

Airborne units may one day have tank-like firepower they can jump with on ... The 82nd Airborne Division was equipped with the M551 Sheridan Armored Reconnaissance Airborne Assault Vehicle until ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (July 29, 2015) -- In honor of the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Army Armor Corps, the Armor School dedicated an M551 Sheridan tank July 10 at Eubanks Field.

November 20, 2018: American airborne troops are again being equipped with an armored vehicle. From the 1960s to 1996 airborne divisions had Sheridan 25 ton light tanks, which saw combat in Vietnam, ...

The Sheridan was a light tank designed to operate in the Army’s cavalry reconnaissance units, ... In the mid to late 2020s, the U.S. Army plans to convert its tank-less airborne, ...

The M551 Sheridan - a tank touted as being mobile, amphibious, air-droppable and armed with gun and missile systems - was developed primarily to support Airborne divisions.