The Military Balance: The annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics (PDF)

The year 2015 saw the hundredth anniversary of the first prototype tank, a vehicle originally designed to provide infantry with fire support and to breach barbed wire and cross trenches.

There have been significant developments in the capabilities and tactics deployed to defeat AFVs, but there have also been considerable advances in the technical sophistication of the vehicles themselves, as well as their firepower, protection and mobility.

The Military Balance: The annualassessment of global military capabilities and defence economics (PDF)