When an explosive detonates, the expanding airblast is powerful enough to shred unarmored vehicles and send debris flying. But that shockwave, no matter how intense, cannot cut through the hardened ...

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 ...

When the first tanks rumbled into action on September 15, 1916, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, they set a template for a military vehicle that was to play a critical part in nearly every ...