The Marder series of German tank destroyers emerged during World War II as a response to heavily armoured Soviet tanks. In ...

Germany’s 3.7 cm Pak 35/36 was the standard anti-tank gun at the start of World War II. Lightweight and easy to maneuver, it ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday that Germany would provide 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks to Ukraine, and other countries also in possession of the German-made tanks would be permitted to ...

Like the German tank guns, these also fired fifty-seven-millimeter shells. Additionally, there was a front-mounted Hotchkiss .303 machine guns, as well as one in each side sponson.

The Soviet T-34 tank was conceived and built in the USSR in total secrecy, and German forces that encountered it in late 1941 experienced a rude shock. About 40,000 T-34s were built from June 1940 ...

Despite being designed as a training tank, the requirements of war made it see action in the German divisions. By the end of the war, over 2,400 units of it have been built.

They had two daughters. Smoyer with a US tank from World War II. German tanks had Americans outgunned, but Smoyer destroyed a feared German tank during a legendary battle.

But they were not nearly as well trained as the German tank crews. And in fact, the German tanks were probably inferior both to the British and the French tanks in 1940.

German tank repair crews reclaimed damaged German and Allied tanks. While the allied lost over 200 tanks, the Germans lost only 75, with more than 40 were because of Allied bombing.

In 1939, the U.S. tank arsenal mostly comprised the 12-ton M2A4 light tank, half the weight of the new German Panzer IV and the Soviet T-34 medium tanks.

The M-4 Sherman, in particular, helped the U.S. Army win the war—even though, in battle, German tanks destroyed them en masse. The Sherman’s inadequacies were products of its origins.

Though tanks technically existed on the battlefield the prior year, it was really during 1917’s World War I Battle of Cambrai that these heavily-armored behemoths became one of the most fearsome ...