Prior to November 1937, British Vickers-Armstrongs had produced a prototype carrier named the Bren No1 Mk I which had been based on the Armoured Machine Gun Carrier. It had a mild steel hull and was probably a prototype model as no records seem to exist showing production numbers. […]
When the US Army Quartermaster Corps began developing its so-called ‘Standard Fleet’ around 1928, the 60 or so vehicles included were broken into five groups numbered I to 5, each roughly corresponding to a weight class. […]
The term ARV armoured recovery vehicle had not then been adopted but in any case, when the recovery vehicle was just another fighting tank temporarily adapted for the role, it was hardly necessary. […]
Straussler’s first vehicle design emerged in May 1931. It was a dual-purpose scout car/ tractor chassis, which had four-wheel drive and four-wheel steering. […]
German submarines U-boats – or ‘unterseeboots’, which translates as ‘undersea boats’ – were a series of submarines used in both World War I and World War II. […]
Considered the foremost military aircraft of the Fifties, the F-86 Sabre was a highly versatile fighter jet as fast as it was lethal. […]
Spider Sense Suit is a suit that enables its wearer to sense when a person or object is approaching […]
By Tim Candlish – When the War of the First Coalition broke out in April 1792, Austrian and Prussian commanders assumed it would be like earlier 18th-century wars. They anticipated battles involving slow-moving blocs of highly drilled professionals discharging massed close-range volleys. Given the state of the French Army, moreover, they anticipated easy triumphs. […]
By Dr. Peter Neville – It was 5pm on 7 May 1954 in the French command post at Dien Rien Phu, the ‘arena of the gods’ as the local Vietnamese called it. The end was near. […]
For decades tank design has been held in the vice-like grip of the “Iron Triangle’, a design mantra that states that any tank – in order to succeed on the battlefield – needs to be built on the sturdy columns of firepower, protection and mobility. The perfect tank, it was deemed, would be a seamless combination of these three key qualities – a machine that could withstand a host of armour-piercing shells […]
