Key Point: “Short of some hitherto unforeseen advancement that renders them obsolete, tanks will be one of those invaluable assets for a long time to come.” Since their debut in September 1915, tanks ...

Revelations that German military equipment, including the Leopard 2 main battle tank (MBT), may not be faring well in the Ukraine-Russia war, has raised the spectre of drone proliferation and a ...

Russia's tanks are still a formidable force in Ukraine, a new report has claimed, despite their age. Though they aren't breaking through at the front line, they play significant support roles, it said ...

The limits of tank design were set long before the first tank ever rolled onto a battlefield. When tanks were invented in 1915, the railway system was the only practical way to move them across long ...

Those heralding the demise of the tank are premature. The tank – the tracked, armoured and heavily-armed fighting vehicle that has dominated land warfare for a century – is wounded, not dead. Drones ...

Military bloggers are preoccupied with an existential question this week: What role will tanks play in tomorrow's military? The U.S. Army's armor branch, once a crucial tool of conventional warfare, ...

When disassembled the dummy tank is about the size of a duffel bag, while its portable generator is about the size of a small laser printer. When erected, which could be accomplished by two men in a ...

Ukrainian forces have used anti-armor weapons extremely effectively against Russian convoys and armored vehicles, perhaps due to a blend of innovative ambush tactics and high-quality equipment. While ...

Having lost at least 2,000 tanks in its 14-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to source the high-tech components its needs to build new tanks, Russia has been pulling out of long-term storage ...

Despite having only the fourth-largest military in the world, Russia is the superpower when it comes to its supply of tanks, with 12,950 in 2020 — more than double the number of the U.S., which came ...

For the rest of the 20th century the rubber tanks were still used. In the late 1980s the U.S. Army developed a decoy version of the M 1 Abrams tank. It cost only $3,300 and weighed 23 kg (about 50 ...