By the late 1930s, Germany was developing one of the most highly mechanized concepts of warfare of its era. Panzer formations were expected to break through ...

On the night of June 5–6, 1944, something was happening over the English Channel that would have seemed like military science fiction only twenty years ...

The history of German weapons development during World War II is full of machines that today look like products of almost pathological gigantomania. The ...

Some vehicles make sense the moment you look at them. A car has four wheels, a tank has two tracks, and a motorcycle has two wheels. The German Sd.Kfz.2 ...

An event that looks almost unbelievable from the standpoint of armored warfare history has taken place on the Baltic Spit in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region. ...

The Germans had the Hummel and Wespe, while the Soviet Union fielded an entire family of self-propelled artillery vehicles. Against them, the American M7 ...

At first glance, the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant looked like one of the strangest aircraft ever built. Slow, enormous, and covered largely in fabric, it seemed ...

In the history of armored warfare, the most influential vehicles were not always those produced in the thousands or used throughout an entire conflict. ...

Old photographs of the Chinese Army often leave even history enthusiasts scratching their heads. Images of soldiers defending Shanghai or Nanjing show men in ...

In movies, the American tanker of World War II always seems to look the same: a short jacket, a communications helmet, goggles pushed up on his forehead, and a ...

Fire as a Weapon: From Concept to Battlefield The idea of installing a flamethrower on a tank emerged as early as the First World War. German designers even ...

A War Without Its Main Architect   Among both historians and enthusiasts, there are two fundamentally different views of the Second World War. ...