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, ...

During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these vehicles had the hull of a Sherman tank and a turret with a long-barrel cannon.

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, around 2,500 or so of ...

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 1916, British engineer William Tritton designed a new kind of tank that he believed would protect the crew from the greatest threat that tanks—then new in mechanized warfare—faced on the ...

May 18, 2023: One of the strangest Russian tanks to show up in Ukraine was the amphibious 18-ton 2S25M tank destroyer. Designed for the airborne forces, development began in the 1980s but production ...

FORT HOOD, Texas - Two vintage tanks were placed on display in front of III Corps Headquarters here, Aug. 13, framing the armored corps with living history. “We took these in, had them sanded down, ...

After months of delay imposed by Republican lawmakers, the U.S. Congress finally passed $61 billion in new funding for Ukraine’s war effort on April 23. Pres. Joe Biden signed the bill the next ...