It was clear to US Army leaders after the blitzkrieg of 1939-1940, where German tanks overran first Poland and then most of ...

Had former Urbana High School history teacher Charles Carpenter talked about his own experiences, which many combat veterans don’t until they get much older, he would have told quite a ...

For decades now, there have been rumors of buried German fighter aircraft just waiting to be found under Turkish soil. The ...

These tank destroyers were introduced to the European theater in 1944. Despite their unglamorous build, armored vehicles like this played a vital role in numerous campaigns and battles and, today, ...

Watch WWII German vehicles in action—including the ... after final game of season US set to kill off tech that cuts car engines at red lights Top 10: The Aircraft That Refused to Retire Why ...

The Leopard 2 is a technical marvel, with echoes of the German Tiger tank in WW2: perhaps the most dangerous tank of the war. Leopard 2 has a very complex fire control system, an outstandingly ...

This is the story of the Kharkiv V-2, the Russian V12 diesel tank engine that stuck around past World War II, the Cold War ... V-2 began production the day German bombs started falling over ...

Almost 80 years removed from the end of World War II, today's generation ... not that it once produced engines that powered Adolf Hitler's dreaded Panzer tanks across battlefields.

These were the five most important tanks (and not quite tanks) of WWII ... taxed the tank’s engine, which remained unchanged, resulting in an increasingly sluggish tank. Germany built 8,553 ...

When Germany invaded ... T-34 to our tanks became plainly apparent." Although a successor for the Panther IV tank was already in the works prior to the start of World War II, it suddenly became ...

Schuetze Reporting from Klietz, Germany ... made tanks to Ukraine. The reluctance reflected Germany’s ambivalence about taking a military leadership role in Europe after World War II, but ...

This tank was fitted with the 5TDF engine which tried to copy a German wartime bomber engine. 2-3,000 T-64s in storage will never return to service. The T-14 Armata used a Russian copy of the German X ...