You don't need to be a military historian to know the names of the Abrams, Patton, Churchill, Challenger, or Tiger tanks, to name just a few well-known examples from around the world. The waters get ...

Key Points - The M103, America's last heavy tank, was developed in the 1950s as a direct response to formidable Soviet heavy tanks like the IS-3. Built with exceptionally thick armor and a powerful ...

The Germans and Soviets both employed heavy tanks as breakthrough vehicles, which traded speed for heavier armament and armor to enable them to penetrate fortified lines. The British had the Churchill ...

Typically, the word "tank" evokes images of enormous reinforced vehicles: heavily armored, heavily armed, and just plain heavy. Outside of its military applications, we might snarkily apply the word ...

Key point: The M4 Sherman was reliable and could be mass-produced. However, Washington lacked a heavily armored tank with a lot of firepower to take on the best its enemies could field. By 1945, the U ...

World War II era experimentations with the likes of the huge Panzer VIII Maus, a 188-ton monstrosity that never made it past the prototype stage, made one thing quite clear: There's historically been ...