As a result, half of the battalions converted to towed, 76-millimeter M5 guns similar in effectiveness to the M10’s own gun. These supplemented the companies of lighter 57-millimeter guns integrated ...
'Inside a German WW2 Tank Destroyer with Historian James Holland' James Holland investigates the mighty 'Jagdpanther', a German tank destroyer of WWII. The German Jagdpanther armoured vehicle was ...
The US Army's tank destroyers reached peak performance in the final battles of WWII, dominating German armor in the Ardennes ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Two men killed by an explosion inside a tank-like armored fighting vehicle from World War Two were filming video of the weapon in action for a non-profit military ...
The Army had some real mechanized artillery to show last week—artillery that was actually self-propelled and could, at a pinch, fire on the enemy while racing into action. Experimental and soon to be ...
When Germany lost World War II in 1945, the age of the JagdPanzer seemed to end. But just twelve years later, the newly ...
The tank-destroyer force was the Army’s response to the wild successes of German armor in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940. Panzer divisions would concentrate more than a hundred tanks on a narrow ...