If there’s a piece of you, no matter how small, that is wondering if you can get away with hiding a World War II-era tank in your home, might we suggest that you don’t? An 84-year-old man in Germany ...

The newly unveiled Rheinmetall KF51 Panther tank is reported to be built with a 130mm Future Gun System, a weapon larger than the standard 120mm weapon used on the Abrams, something which raises ...

The war was ending, but the fighting on the Eastern Front was at its most desperate. Germany's formidable Panther—arguably the best tank of the war—faced the Soviet Union's mighty IS-2 "Stalin's ...

The Soviet T-34 shocked Germany with its speed, armor and sloped design, pushing German engineers into a desperate effort to build something better. Their answer was the Panther, a tank with ...

Rheinmetall wants to build tanks in Ukraine, CEO Armin Papperger told the Rheinische Post. A plant would cost about $200 million and could produce 400 battle tanks a year. Rheinmetall makes the ...

Arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is holding "promising" talks to build a tank factory in Ukraine following the Russian invasion, the head of the German company said in an interview published on March 4. ...

Key point: Tank-destroyers also taught the Army not to over-specialize. There was no need for multiple classes of tanks that were strong in one respect and weak in another. During the 1940s, the U.S.

Sailors from the frigate U.S.S. Constitution doff their caps as World War II tank gunner Clarence Smoyer enters the Charlestown Naval Shipyard in Boston on Wednesday. The 95-year-old veteran was ...

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Military historian and marine archaeologist Hamilton gives us a remarkably detailed account of the type VIIC submarine U-1105, nicknamed “Black Panther”. Completed in mid-1944, U-1105, a type VIIC ...