A collectivized society was more pragmatic and literal. tanks named for generals or the German tanks named for predatory cats, Soviet tanks would forgo romanticized naming conventions. After Russia’s communist revolution, development of a tank became an important signal that Soviet industry could keep pace with the West. They are descendants of the first Soviet tank, the T-18, which entered mass production in 1928, long after Western powers pioneered tank design during the later years of World War I. The Russian T-90s, whose charred carcasses littered the highways into Kyiv last summer, have their own lineage. Germany, which has eradicated so much of its martial past from its heritage, retains the naming convention of its tanks, a fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin touts in claims of Ukraine’s Nazification as today’s Leopards follow their Panther and Tiger progenitors into the bloodlands of Eastern Europe. These naming conventions form neat, 80-year links in a chain of American war. The time separating Abrams’s service in World War II and today’s war in Ukraine is roughly the same time separating the Civil War service of Sherman from those who rode in the tanks that bore his name.
Creighton Abrams, who commanded armor units in World War II. The M1 Abrams main battle tank is named after Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman, who commanded Union troops in the Civil War. heavy armor fought in Europe, it wasn’t Abrams but Shermans, named after Gen. The last time German heavy armor traveled that far east, it wasn’t Leopards but Panthers and Tigers, and they tore up the earth around Stalingrad and Kursk. T he tanks are arriving in Ukraine, Abrams and Leopards to face off against T-90s.
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