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The Pentagon has taken a step back from supporting research and development of robotic land vehicles. The goal was to be able ...
The Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) was not just Germany’s most-produced armored vehicle of World War II; it was also the most ...
The Panzer III medium tank, officially known as the Panzerkampfwagen III, served as the German forces' main battle tank for ...
It was issued to schwere Panzer-Abteilung 504 and shipped to Tunisia between 12 March and 16 April 1943. It was attached to No. 3 Platoon in No.1 Company (1.Kompanie./schwere Panzer Abteilung 504 ...
Rather, Germany devised entire bunkers beneath the Panzer turret, complete with thicker 16 to 40mm armor to combat powerful tank destroyers, a commander's seat to control the turret, and a steel ...
This is The Rally Point, a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming. For someone so skeptical of taxonomy, I sure love a good subgenre dive. That's partly because ...
Development of the Panzer VIII Maus super-heavy tank began in 1941 with Krupp’s studies of Soviet tanks like the KV series. By early 1942, Krupp had designed prototypes, including the hybrid ...
But what makes the M18 Hellcat one of the best tank destroyers of World War II is that it had the highest kill-loss ratio of any armored vehicle in the U.S. inventory.
The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, which translates to ‘mouse’ in English, was evidence of German engineering during World War II. This super-heavy tank, completed in late 1944, is the most heavily ...
Germany built 8,553 Panzer IVs of all types. After the war, Panzer IVs served in the Syrian Army, fighting in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars. M4 Sherman (USA) U.S. Navy // Getty Images ...
World War II was not quite the end of the line for U.S. tank destroyers. The M36 Jackson and its 90-millimeter gun were hastily called back for use in the Korean War five years later to counter ...
Tanks are often thought of as a technology of the First World War, but the Czech Panzer 38 (t) played a major role in some of the most decisive battles early on in World War II. Czechoslovakia was ...