The war in Ukraine has shown how vulnerable armored vehicles can be to attacks by cheap, expendable drones, threatening the tank’s century-long primacy on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine has shown ...
Sometimes, the greatest threat to a new weapon isn't the enemy, but its own commanders. This is the story of the M26 Pershing, America's powerful heavy tank designed to duel German Tigers and Panthers ...
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The United States entered World War 2 with the largest industrial base in the entire world. Raw materials, manufacturing capacity, and able-bodied workers are part of what made the war effort swing in ...
Key point: In the 1940s and 1950s, the Soviets, British, and French all fielded heavy tanks. The United States had fielded the forty-six-ton M-26 Pershing at the the end of World War II ...
A pair of Ukrainian tanks engaged a speeding Russian armored personnel carrier at point-blank range—just 50 feet or so—in a shocking skirmish in Russia’s Kursk Oblast apparently this week. The outcome ...
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In March 1945 US forces of the 3rd Armored Division advanced into the ruins of the German city of Cologne. Over two days of bitter fighting they eventually pushed the defenders back across the Rhine.
If you were about to lose your job and someone saved it, you’d probably appreciate that. In Lima, Ohio, workers at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center — owned by the Department of Defense and ...