After the successful Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939 and 1940 that significantly extended Germany’s domains, Adolf Hitler prepared its armies to conquer the Soviet Union. However, once the previously ...

The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...

Summary: During World War II, the Allied forces, leveraging their industrial capabilities, produced tens of thousands of medium tanks such as the Sherman, T-34, and Cromwell. Despite being outclassed ...

American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more firepower. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story ...

Most historians agree that there was no time on earth when the tank was more important for the outcome of combat than in World War II. But of course tanks were around before that time and continue to ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Though tanks technically existed on the battlefield the ...

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, ...

Saying the Char B1 was France's best tank during World War II might sound incongruous, considering the European country (along with Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium) fell to the Nazi war ...

A Leopard 2 tank is on display at the KNDS stand at the Eurosatory International Defence and Security Exhibition in June 2022 in Paris. France and Germany have set out to develop a common successor to ...

Ukraine’s separate air-assault force is transforming one of its oldest brigades into a German brigade. The 25th Airborne Brigade earlier this month revealed, in a photo it posted on-line, that it has ...