Germany's Leopard 2 tanks are said to have been a failure on the frontline in Ukraine and Kyiv's soldiers prefer using German tanks from the 1960s, according to a damning assessment by Ukraine's ...

Secondly, these multi-million-pound tanks have become very susceptible to the ubiquitous $500 drones, which destroy them at an alarming rate.The Leopard 2 and CR2 were designed when there was no drone ...

the men desperately fended off multiple ground assaults from their determined German foes. Today, the 'Fray Bentos Boys' are officially recognised as the most decorated tank crew of WW1 - having ...

As the war wore on, then, the German army was forced to develop its own response. The Mauser Tank-Gewehr was a unique and cumbersome rifle from 1918 that fired a single monstrous shot: A 13mm ...

Walker was 27 and commanded an M4 Sherman tank in November 1944 when his unit battled German forces near Hücheln, Germany, and his tank was struck by an anti-tank round. "The hit caused a fire ...

Tanks were first invented in World War I, where they were envisioned as invincible land ships that could break the stalemate of trench warfare and lead to victory. Technological shortcomings meant ...

When the war started, he enlisted in the German Army and went on to design not just the A7V but other tanks as well. Vollmer more or less copied the design of armored train cars from the era.

Ukraine has a new weapon in its fight against Russia — Cold War-era German battle tanks. The New York Times reported that Germany sent 10 of the obsolete Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine last month.

France had a qualitative advantage in tanks at this time, but Germany prevailed because of its superior tactical deployment and mobility. The German tanks also had more crew members, so the ...

At the time, Germany was criticized for its dithering when it came to sending German-made tanks to Ukraine. The reluctance reflected Germany’s ambivalence about taking a military leadership role ...