Modern Battle Tanks and Support Vehicles - a guide to the main battle tanks in service for 1997. For each tank there is a brief article with a description, a table with the main characteristics, a photograph and diagrams of the side and front views. 55 models and modifications of tanks from different countries are considered - Russia, USA, Germany, Great Britain, France, Israel, Argentina, India, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the Republic of South Africa.