In 1941, the German war effort was looking for a new type of tank to combat the rise of soviet armor. A tank that would be ...

From the biggest gun ever used in combat to the terribly impractical massive Panzer VIII Maus, Hitler's maniacal quest to dominate the world resulted in some of the most bizarre instruments of war the ...

"Nazi engineers were known for their eccentric projects and lethal wonder weapons, some of which, had they been completed, could have changed the course of the war in Germany's favor. These projects ...

Tanks have been around since World War I, and by necessity, they've always been large, heavy military machines. Their tremendous size and weight come from the thick armor plating affixed to various ...

Key point: It was an act of desperation—and an engineering marvel. By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after Kursk — ...

The Maus’ specifications are still somewhat hard to believe. The front glacis — the sloped section beneath the turret — was a remarkable 200 millimeters thick. By the time the super-heavy Maus tank ...

The past 100 years is filled with insane tanks. Starting with France's fearsome Char2c in the early 1920s and ending with the highly capable M1 Abrams battle tank in service today, tanks have become a ...

Of all the harrowing, intimidating arms and artillery dreamed up by military engineers over the last few centuries, few induce the instinctive evacuation of enemy bowels like the sight of a ...

Next year, humankind would be commemorating 80 years since the start of the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany forces invaded Poland from the West, ...