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 ...
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 ...
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 Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a WWII engineering marvel - and a massive failure. Weighing 188 tons, it was the heaviest tank ever constructed. But its size made it nearly immobile, and it never ...
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 ...
When it comes to the art of war, military minds love to conjure up massive weapons of destruction. From early projectile-hurling trebuchets to the Nazi's Schwerer Gustav (the largest-caliber rifled ...