It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Tank-destroyers were pretty much just tanks with inferior armor and better guns. Contrary to doctrine, commanders in the field asked them to perform most of the same ...

From the rugged hills of Italy to the frozen forests of the Ardennes, U.S. tank destroyers clashed with German Tigers and Panthers in brutal close-range battles. The speedy M18 Hellcat claimed the ...

During the Second World War, American tank doctrine called for U.S. tanks to engage and defeat any enemy tanks they came up against. The Tank Destroyer Force made that possible. Thanks to a massive ...

An MT-LB-12 in 2022. In 1944, the Soviet Union’s state defense committee ordered the country’s industry to develop a better anti-tank gun—one that could penetrate the armor of the latest German tanks.

Military men the world over have searched for two years for a surefire, mechanical defense against the tank. The U.S. Army Ordnance Department last week announced that perhaps they had found one—in ...

May 18, 2023: One of the strangest Russian tanks to show up in Ukraine was the amphibious 18-ton 2S25M tank destroyer. Designed for the airborne forces, development began in the 1980s but production ...

On a frigid January afternoon in 1945, Company B, 15th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was attacked on the outskirts of Holtzwihr, France, by six tanks and an estimated 250 German infantrymen, who ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum in Huntsville added a rare tank to its collection on Tuesday. After a 4.5-year restoration, the museum, which specializes in military ...