The Tiger I’s thick armor and 88mm gun often required multiple Allied vehicles or air support to defeat. The T-34’s sloped armor and mobility shocked German forces when first encountered in 1941.

The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...

On January 26, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France, Second Lieutenant Audie Murphy ordered his remaining men to fall back, then ...

The carnage of WWII led to several innovations, including tank designs that emphasized armor protection and firepower to an ...

KNDS, a European defense contractor, has unveiled a new tank with a bewildering number of guns. EMBT ADT 140 mounts not one, but three guns—each optimized to handle a different kind of threat. The ...

In April 2022, just two months after Russia widened its war on Ukraine, Slovenia pledged to the Ukrainian war effort all of its old M-55S tanks. Well, all of them that weren’t in a museum: 28 copies.

It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...