Throughout a significant portion of World War II, the British Army found itself equipped with a series of tanks that fell on a spectrum from poor to just marginally satisfactory. Some of these tanks ...

The Mark I British Army heavy tank that entered service in 1916 was agonizingly slow to move, crawling along at a maximum speed of 3.7 mph (6 km/h), so it could easily be outrun and outmaneuvered ...

Tanks should be fast, powerful, robust—everything the Covenanter tank was not. A Rushed Design In 1938 and 1939, it became increasingly apparent to both the British military and to the world ...

This and other incidents led the British army to outfit, as soon as 1945, new Centurion tanks with "boiling vessels," special water boilers that allowed for shorter and safer tea and food breaks ...

The Crusader tank was one of the most used British cruiser tanks in North Africa during the Second World War. The Crusader was designed to be faster than infantry tanks and were, therefore, more ...

Becoming a “Universal Tank” The Centurion saga begins with a dismal prologue: British tank design during World War II.Despite inventing the tank in the First World War, British armor in the ...

Doomed tanks that were the key to winning D-Day have been revealed in stunning new underwater images. The war tanks sunk during Operation Smash - a huge training exercise held on a Dorset beach in ...

Invented by the British, they had their debut in 1916, and other allied nations made their own to join in. Germany, on the receiving end of tank offensives, was slow to develop armored gunwagons ...