The Second World War resulted in the production of some pretty legendary tanks, on the Allied and Axis sides alike. The U.S. had the famous M4 Sherman. Great Britain had its Churchill tank series – ...

Key Points - The German King Tiger (Tiger II) was one of the most powerful and feared heavy tanks of World War II. -Introduced in 1944, it boasted incredibly thick, sloped frontal armor that was ...

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...

An ambitious £1m plan to restore one of World War Two's most formidable tanks has been launched by a Dorset museum. The King Tiger tank has been in the collection at The Tank Museum, in Bovington, ...

The upcoming World War II film "Fury" puts tank warfare front and center in a depiction of the final Allied push into Germany in 1945. In the movie, a U.S. Army sergeant (played by Brad Pitt) commands ...

World War II was tank-heavy, as both the Allied and Axis powers fielded thousands of the behemoths. Tanks fought from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the fields of France and deserts of North Africa, ...

The Germans and Soviets both employed heavy tanks as breakthrough vehicles, which traded speed for heavier armament and armor to enable them to penetrate fortified lines. The British had the Churchill ...