One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

In this episode, we follow two of World War II’s most famous machines - the American M4 Sherman and the Soviet T-34 - as they outlive the conflict that made them legends and reappear in wars that ...

From the mass-produced M4 Sherman to the powerful M26 Pershing, U.S. armor provided the firepower and mobility that would be reflected in tank warfare down through the years Are you ahead, or behind ...

The M2A2 and M2A3 light tanks, with their twin-turret designs and machine gun armament, represented the U.S. Army’s early drive to modernize its armored forces. Though obsolete by the start of World ...

The initial assessment by the IDF was that an anti-tank missile caused the explosion. An IDF investigation into the deaths of three soldiers from the 401st Brigade of the Armored Corps found that the ...

A tank turret is the brain and brawn of an armored fighting vehicle, housing its most critical functions: the main gun, targeting systems, and a complement of crew. From the outside, it might seem ...

A World War II veteran rolled a tank over a Tesla in a video stunt by a British activist group targeted at Elon Musk. The veteran drove the tank over the vehicle in protest over Musk's increasing ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank was ...

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Tanks used in the Second World War evolved significantly compared to the Great War, going from slow, cumbersome armored pieces of rolling artillery whose effectiveness in many situations was ...

Tanks were first invented in World War I, where they were envisioned as invincible land ships that could break the stalemate of trench warfare and lead to victory. Technological shortcomings meant ...

Thousands of tanks have been destroyed in Ukraine since Russia attacked last year. Most of the tanks each side is using were designed and built during the Cold War. Many of the vulnerabilities ...