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 ...

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 ...

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 ...