What were NATO and the warsaw pact what was the first major armed conflict of the cold war10/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The final WP Cold War MBTs were the T-64, T-72 and T-80 all with 122mm main armament.īy contrast, NATO nations increasingly deployed a range of MBTs the widely used American Patton series (M46 through M48), British Chieftain (1963) and Challenger (1982), French AMX-13 (1950) and AMX-30. Next came the T-54 followed by the T-55 and 155mm armed T-63 (1965). The Soviets originally fielded the T-34-85 medium tank and the IS-2 and IS-3 heavy tank replaced by the T-10. Initially both sides relied on Second World War MBTs in NATO’s case the Sherman medium tank and its successor the M26 Pershing together with the British Centurion and the heavy Conqueror. The mainstay of both alliances’ ground forces were their main battle tanks (MBTs). ![]() In response the Soviet Union assembled and dominated the Warsaw Pact in 1954. Led by the USA with Western European partners, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to counter the Soviet threat. The following introduction is taken from the Pen and Sword website:
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