At the start of the war, Germany’s anti-tank forces relied heavily on outdated guns and slow-moving equipment that struggled ...
World War II produced some of the most famous armored vehicles in military history. Tanks became a central part of how armies fought, and certain designs quickly gained reputations among soldiers who ...
Here’s what you need to know: The Red Army fielded the SU-100 in large numbers, though nowhere close to the number of T-34s and variants that the Soviet Union produced. Still,... Heavily armed and ...
Military men the world over have searched for two years for a surefire, mechanical defense against the tank. The U.S. Army Ordnance Department last week announced that perhaps they had found one—in ...
The Centauro can reach a top speed of 67 mph—which means it can take a shot and retreat, instead of engaging in a slug match with an adversary’s main battle tank. In the spring of 2023, reports ...
The Allied invasion of Europe in June of 1944 saw troops embark on a campaign aimed at the very heart of Germany. The dense hedgerows of Normandy took longer to fight through than expected. Still, by ...
In a slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, ...