Alternative tank design
During the second half of World War II, German tank development became increasingly obsessed with gigantism. The culmination of this trend was the 188-ton Maus ...
Boroda
In the late 1960s, the United States and West Germany were developing a tank intended to revolutionize armored warfare. An extremely powerful engine, ...
In the mid-1980s, West Germany possessed one of the world's finest tanks — the Leopard 2. Its powerful 120 mm gun, excellent optics, reliable powerplant, and ...
By the end of World War II, American tank crews were facing an unpleasant problem. Despite all its advantages, their mass-produced M4 Sherman was finding it ...
They really are coming thick and fast. Just a few days ago, I published an alternative Russian tank from the First World War — the 16-ton SB-1, which ...
The First World War marked the birth of the tank. However, despite its enormous army and well-developed engineering tradition, the Russian Empire never managed ...
The history of Soviet tank development ended at perhaps its most interesting moment. By the late 1980s, the USSR simultaneously possessed several powerful ...
The history of Polish tank development on the eve of World War II leaves a rather peculiar impression. On the one hand, Poland was by no means a country ...
Whichever way you look at it, the appearance of the T-34 as we know it was largely the result of an extraordinarily fortunate combination of ...
The history of the twentieth century could have taken a very different course if the German Empire had survived the First World War. Imagine that in 1918 the ...