Question For Tread Heads - Weight Classifications IRL

[Daemion]

So, the idea of vehicles having a classification of light, medium and heavy has its basis in real life.  But, I'm curious if it's as cut and dry as it is in BattleTech.

What tonnages are actually considered 'light', which are 'medium', and which are 'heavy'?  Just curious where things actually lie for current vehicles.  For instance, is the 50-ton M1 variant a heavy tank?

Part of the reason I bring this up is that I look at stats for Real Robot Anime Mechs, like Fang of the Sun Dougram's Combat Armors, and most of them don't top out more than 40 metric.  Neither do the weights given for the MBR Destroids for Robotech.  And, the trend doesn't end there.  Shattered Steel has its World Runners not getting to far above 50 tons.

In BT, a lot of those mechs are in the light to medium range. But, would that be true under real world classifications?

Thanks.

[Natasha Kerensky]

There’s no hard-and-fast weight cutoffs.  What is light or heavy for one military will be different from other militaries.  But here’s one real-world take on tank classification weights in the modern era:

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/tanks.htm

And the ubiquitous Wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_classification#:~:text=Heavy%20tanks%20were%20required%20to,transport%20on%20lorries%20(trucks).

[Daemion]

I expected as much.  But, that works well enough for me. 

Thanks.