It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...

Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MBDA is set to unveil the called Akeron MBT 120 tank gun-fired missile at the DSEI defense show in London on Sept. 9, 2025. (MBDA ...

The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank was ...

Europe’s largest missile maker, MBDA, is developing a new missile that can be launched from a tank’s standard 120mm gun. This missile allows tank crews to hit targets that are hidden behind buildings, ...

It has been ten years since the last re­vision of the tank gunnery manual. In the coming weeks the 2025 version of the Abrams gunnery manual will be au­thenticated and formally published through the ...

During the Second World War, elite paratroopers were used by both sides to drop deep behind enemy lines. Paratroopers proved crucial for the Allies during the D-Day landings, but the... Here’s What ...

ARCHBALD — With a practiced ease, Ret. Army Major Clyde Brown III enthusiastically swung open the engine hatch of a newly delivered M163 anti-aircraft vehicle at the upcoming Archbald Borough Veterans ...

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 ...

Here is a selection of their responses, which have been edited for brevity. I served in the United States Army from 1987 to 1991 and was deployed to Germany during the cold war. Like Mark Urban, I ...