N Korea is getting serious.

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Just curious, do you know anything about the M-103 tanks? Short-lived and huge, is all I really know.

Not a lot but....

Up until the M1, the M103 was the heaviest tank in the US arsenal at 65 tons (About what the original M1 Abrams weighed). It hosted a 120mm main gun with a crew of 5. Usual tank crew was 4 but the M103 required two loaders for the 120mm gun instead of the usual one loader for the standard 90mm tank guns. It was underpowered and had a rather fragile transmission. Only 300 here built in 1953 under the T43E1 designation. Of those 80 went to the US Army (74 were converted to M103 standard), 220 went to the Marines and were converted to M103A1 and M103A2; used for infantry support.

The original design was intended to be for long range engagement of Soviet tanks in Europe during the cold war. They entered service around 1957 and were retired in 1974.