A tank turret is the brain and brawn of an armored fighting vehicle, housing its most critical functions: the main gun, targeting systems, and a complement of crew. From the outside, it might seem ...
During the interwar years, multi-turreted tanks were all the rage. Post-war, the British developed the A1E1 dual-turreted tank, which formed the basis for a number of other inter-war multi-turreted ...
Do you enjoy Eastern European YouTube videos of tanks crossing streets like pedestrians or just getting traffic jammed in rush hour? This time, the Romanian army managed to scale it up a bit, as they ...
The M3 Stuart tank’s origin story begins with the M2, a light tank that preceded the M3. A product of the interwar years, the M2 was perhaps an adequate tank by pre-war standards though quickly became ...
The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank was ...
Russian armor suffers from a design flaw that makes them susceptible to losing their tops in direct hits — a well-documented flaw Ukrainian troops are taking advantage of to smolder enemy forces. The ...
Aside from the matte gray paint job, the AbramsX looks a lot like, well, an Abrams tank. It’s big, and with a 120-millimeter main gun, it’s bad. Developed by General Dynamics, the AbramsX is still ...
Key Points and Summary - Russia’s T-90 main battle tank has underwhelmed in Ukraine. -Its low profile comes from a three-man crew and autoloader, but the ammo carousel beneath the turret creates a ...
Thousands of tanks have been destroyed in Ukraine since Russia attacked last year. Most of the tanks each side is using were designed and built during the Cold War. Many of the vulnerabilities ...
With the United States dragged into World War II on account of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a sleeping giant awoke. As a result of the country’s need to quickly provide troops with equipment, ...