As a result, half of the battalions converted to towed, 76-millimeter M5 guns similar in effectiveness to the M10’s own gun. These supplemented the companies of lighter 57-millimeter guns integrated ...

As tank armor grew thicker, traditional anti-tank guns became harder to deploy—and harder to move. The answer was mobility: self-propelled guns that could keep up with fast-changing battlefronts.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Tank-destroyers were pretty much just tanks with inferior armor and better guns. Contrary to doctrine, commanders in the field asked them to perform most of the same ...

The Army had some real mechanized artillery to show last week—artillery that was actually self-propelled and could, at a pinch, fire on the enemy while racing into action. Experimental and soon to be ...

There’s nothing easy about riding in a M36 Jackson tank destroyer. In a dirt field behind the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, the approximately 32-ton machine roars and exhales gas fumes. If ...