International attention has been drawn to tank warfare in Ukraine. Tanks have big guns, but medium-caliber cannons on other armored vehicles can be just as deadly. Those smaller cannons have "shaped ...

The bulge found on the turret of a modern tank's main gun is actually a straightforward device that helps to expel the propellant gases released after each round is fired. These fumes are toxic, and ...

A new 120mm smoothbore gun is at the center of the remanufactured Challenger 3 and the British Army’s future armor plans.

The advent of the tank in 1916 during the First World War spurred the development of anti-tank warfare. Large-sized landmines were a static defense that depended on successfully estimating what paths ...

The M1 Abrams is the current main battle tank of the U.S. military and has been in service since the early 1980s, but the first time it saw real combat was during First Gulf War in 1991. While a lot ...

An MT-LB-12 in 2022. In 1944, the Soviet Union’s state defense committee ordered the country’s industry to develop a better anti-tank gun—one that could penetrate the armor of the latest German tanks.

Most nations with armies have tanks, and France is no exception. French tanks have rolled across the battlefields of Europe for decades, and the most recent addition to those ranks is the Leclerc Main ...

During the Second World War, elite paratroopers were used by both sides to drop deep behind enemy lines. Paratroopers proved crucial for the Allies during the D-Day landings, but the... Here’s What ...

When the first tanks rumbled into action on September 15, 1916, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, they set a template for a military vehicle that was to play a critical part in nearly every ...