
He is the in-house historian for the online game World of Tanks, and he has a YouTube channel covering armored history. Moran is an armor officer on M1 Abrams tanks and M3 Bradleys, with combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Beyond the Brick's Joshua Hanlon talks with Matthew Green about his LEGO World War II battle of Kursk at Brick Rodeo 2023.Subscribe for awesome new LEGO vi. Moran also explains the realism of tank battles on icy, sandy, and mountainous terrain in "The Beast" (1988), "Operation Red Sea" (2018), and "The Fate of the Furious" (2017) with Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel. He looks at World War I tanks and other armored vehicles in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022), "Rambo III" (1988) with Sylvester Stallone, and "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) featuring Christian Bale.


Moran breaks down the accuracy of World War II tanks in "Band of Brothers" E3 (2001), "T-34" (2019), and "Fury" (2014) with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf. Military vehicle historian and armor officer Nicholas Moran rates more tank battles in movies and television for realism.
