Ferdinand Porsche was an eccentric man. A man of many talents, all under the general purview of engineering. But to say that all of his inventions and his machines were built for the betterment of ...

Tiger 231 was an impenetrable war machine from World War II that stood on the battlefield with multiple system failures and managed to retreat 37 miles on its own power. The story is as much about the ...

Key Points - The German King Tiger (Tiger II) was one of the most powerful and feared heavy tanks of World War II. -Introduced in 1944, it boasted incredibly thick, sloped frontal armor that was ...

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...

Nazi Germany’s Tiger is arguably the most famous tank of World War II. With its thick armor and devastating 88-millimeter gun, the Mark VI—or Tiger I—soon earned a devastating reputation on the ...

The Second World War resulted in the production of some pretty legendary tanks, on the Allied and Axis sides alike. The U.S. had the famous M4 Sherman. Great Britain had its Churchill tank series – ...

When the Allies crossed France in June 1944, one of the big times during the European Theatre of World War II, they faced the powerful German Tiger tanks. Tipping the scales for whiplash 56 tonnes ...

World War II was tank-heavy, as both the Allied and Axis powers fielded thousands of the behemoths. Tanks fought from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the fields of France and deserts of North Africa, ...

FULL, Switzerland, March 31 (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second ...

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) – A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany’s 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...