Here’s What You Need To Know: The shortcomings of U.S. tank destroyers are clear. During the 1940s, the U.S. Army developed a special weapon to counter the tanks of the German Wehrmacht. Most of these ...

Germany had a hugely successful range of assault guns, tank destroyers, and tank hunters, which were developed during the Second World War. As the war progressed, the German Army had to find a use for ...

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 ...

The Normandy hedgerows were a death trap for tanks—a perfect killing ground for hidden German anti-tank guns. But the U.S.

In a slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, ...

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...

The Cold War-era Leopard 1A5 may be old, but it is still effective, Germany says. The country is now training Ukrainian troops to operate the weapons. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Klietz, ...