On September 15, 1916, the first tracked armored vehicles – codenamed tanks – rolled into action on the side of the British ...

The walking tank concept has always captured imaginations. Whether you’re talking about the AT-AT walkers of Star Wars, or the Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40,000, they are often portrayed in ...

Since the final years of the First World War, the land battleship concept has enchanted ... what the purpose of a tank really is. Go back to the darkest days of WWI, when the first tanks ...

If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest Swinton. He proposed the concept of a land battleship, an idea taken up by Winston Churchill, then First Lord ...

Guy Martin wants to build a working replica of a World War One tank, pass his tank driving test and drive the machine at Lincoln's Remembrance Day parade. Advertisement ...

The tank was a supposed miracle weapon intended to overcome the advantages of the German defences. However, as tank commander Horace Birks describes, they did not have the desired impact in the ...

thought there was something to the concept. He sanctioned the expenditure of £70,000 in Admiralty funds to finance the ...

Thus, he’s come back and made what looks to be a very promising, fully capable outdoor RC tank chassis, one that, within reason, we think should eventually be able to go anywhere. For plenty of ...

WW1 tank commander Cecil Sewell was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in trying to help stranded colleagues at Fremincourt in France in August 1918. Georgie took a ride in a replica Mark ...

A hundred years ago this September tanks were used for the first time on a battlefield at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the third main phase of the Battle of the Somme. The project to develop a ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Tuesday for a World War I-era military tank Mark VIII at the Rock Island Arsenal. The tank displayed at the Rock Island Arsenal Museum is ...