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 ...

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 ...

On the Eastern Front, tank warfare reached an entirely new scale. In this video, I compare German and Soviet tanks ...

Key Point: Heavy tanks like the King Tiger proved a dead end. After 1945, nations switched to building main battle tanks that had sufficient firepower and armor to breach enemy defenses, like heavy ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: 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 ...

A chunk of shrapnel left wedged in the world's only running World War Two Tiger I tank for more than 80 years has been plucked from one of its wheels. The lump of metal was found in the German Tiger ...

The tank was introduced in World War I when Britain unveiled the then-secret weapon against German forces and were able to run these rolling fortresses right over German barbed wire and trenches, ...

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 ...