Launched in July 1944, Operation Goodwood was designed to break German defenses east of Caen using overwhelming armored force. Thousands of tanks and bombers were committed in what became the largest ...

About 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed, wounded or are missing since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, a rate of casualties for a major military power not seen since World War ...

The Centurion was designed in the final months of World War II to survive German heavy guns and defeat Panthers and Tigers.

It is not entirely clear what role tanks will play in a future great-power conflict, given the mauling Russian tanks have ...

The Bollywood war drama Ikkis hit theatres on Thursday, and the story of 21-year-old Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal—who gave Pakistani forces hell on board his ‘Famagusta’—is already being hailed ...

Peter Kindred grew up in a farmhouse stuffed with World War Two arms and explosives. His father's Home Guard uniform was hanging in a wardrobe upstairs; the munitions must relate to his time in "Dad's ...

In the scorching deserts of North Africa, British forces pulled off one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II—they made 27-ton tanks disappear by disguising them as harmless 3-ton lorries.

From the mass-produced M4 Sherman to the powerful M26 Pershing, U.S. armor provided the firepower and mobility that would be reflected in tank warfare down through the years Are you ahead, or behind ...

Welcome to a bonus edition of the War Room. On top of your regular dispatches from Shashank, I’ll be writing an edition, every month, all about military history. I have been a correspondent for The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Undiscovered Second World War bombs and tank shells have been exploding as fires have spread across a large area of the North York ...

With the German Army holding a coastline opposite the British Isles last week almost as long as from Maine to Florida, Prime Minister Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to make an address ...

The Panzerkampfwagen VI, also known as the Tiger, is undoubtedly the most famous and one of the most powerful tanks of World War II. Tiger 131 as abandoned by its crew on April 20, 1943 at Djebel ...