The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...

A retired UK colonel and a war historian are sounding the alarm on Britain's tank production. They warned against relying on advanced weapons too costly to scale up, a mistake Nazi Germany made. Their ...

The Mephisto tank first arose as a sort of evolution of armored cars that were already starting to find a role in combat, like the British Royal Naval Air Service's Rolls Royce Ghosts of 1914. Such ...

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 ...

Among the many high-sounding but vague provisions sprinkled through the Franco-German reconciliation treaty ceremonially signed in Paris six weeks ago was one calling for joint research and ...

Mud, blood, and barbed wire. To an Allied soldier in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917, that seemed to be the future as well as the present. He had good reason for his fatalism. When the First ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A British soldier crashed not one but two 8-tonne reconnaissance tanks after breaking out of his camp in north Germany early on Friday on a drunken joyride. The 18-year-old soldier ...

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