Tank guns have come a long way—from low-velocity cannons to precision, high-penetration weapons capable of destroying targets ...

The United Kingdom’s new Challenger 3 is a formidable main battle tank, boasting a new NATO-standard 120mm smoothbore gun and ...

What’s that bump in the barrel of an Abrams tank 120 mm gun? It’s a bore evacuator. Some people call it a fume extractor. It works to pull harmful fumes from the gun barrel after firing ...

News; Weird News; Selfies; Soldiers use tank barrel gun as a selfie stick as they take pictures and videos of themselves The military men hooked up their phone to the end of the barrel and filmed ...

The Sonic RAREFACTION WAVE GUN (RAVEN) is a Projectile Launch Method that achieves: – Unprecedented Reductions in Recoil Impulse. It can shoot faster, cooler and can be lighter than a current gun ...

Faced with waves of advancing Allied tanks, the Germans developed the massive 13.2 mm Tankgewehr. This one survived the war, but not a fire. Here’s the story of how a restorer put it back ...

Mated to an M6 carriage, the gun was designed to replace the smaller, lighter and now-obsolete M3 37MM gun, which was not able to mount meaningful resistance against Axis tanks. The M5 was issued ...

Two soldiers fatally wounded after an explosion and fire on their tank at an Army live-firing range died after a design flaw went undetected on their armoured vehicle's gun barrel, a coroner has ...

Russian tanks in Ukraine appear to have used about 100,000 of these shells and in doing so discovered another problem. These shells caused barrel wear on the 125mm tank gun liners. These liners are ...

In the 1970s, tanks began to receive computer-based fire control systems designed to increase accuracy at long range. Basic physics tells us that a projectile fired from a tank gun is immediately ...

The MOD designed and developed the main gun, in-house, in the 1980s, for use on Challenger 2 – with the tank entering service in the 1990s. ITVX Presents ITVX ...