Category: Military Vehicles and Weapons

Famous ‘US’ D-Day Embarkation Town, Councillor Wants Parade Vehicles to Cut Emissions

US troops arrived in Dorset in the summer of 1943 from Africa and Sicily and basically took over the county. They spent almost a year…

Famous ‘US’ D-Day Embarkation Town, Councillor Wants Parade Vehicles to Cut Emissions

US troops arrived in Dorset in the summer of 1943 from Africa and Sicily and basically took over the county. They spent almost a year…

Famous ‘US’ D-Day Embarkation Town, Councillor Wants Parade Vehicles to Cut Emissions

US troops arrived in Dorset in the summer of 1943 from Africa and Sicily and basically took over the county. They spent almost a year…

Marines to Shut Down All Tank Units in Major Overhaul

Jack Beckett

The loved and revered M1A1 Abrams tanks used by the 2nd Tank Battalion based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina left the base in March. The…

A Charity Needs Volunteers to Help Restore a Conqueror

Jack Beckett

The Soldier On! Charity is offering six people on the Isle of Wight the opportunity to help restore a Cold War-era Conqueror tank. The tank…

Tanks ‘could be scrapped’ in Bizarre Overhaul of UK Armed Forces

Jack Beckett

A source within the British government has stated that the government is aware that bold choices need  to be made when determining how to ration…

US Deploys Active Armor on Tanks in European Exercises

Jack Beckett

The US Army has deployed the new Abrams Reactive Armor Tiles (ARAT) to its Abrams main battle tanks in Europe. The US Army Europe announced…

Abrams Crew Mistakenly Fired on Another Tank During Exercise

Jack Beckett

During training exercises at the Fort Bliss training grounds in Texas, a US Army M1A2 Abrams main battle tank accidentally fired at another tank. The…

9 Qualities of the T-34 – Yes it Does Have Some

Jack Beckett

The T-34 tank was the Red Army’s workhorse of armoured warfare during the Second World War and even made up the bulk of Soviet armoured…

The Mind Blowing Statistics of the T-34

Jack Beckett

In total, its estimated 84,000 T-34 tanks have been built. These astonishing numbers are second only to the T-54/55 tanks, of which an estimated 85,000…

What is Superior, the Rifled or Smoothbored Barrel

A hot point of discussion in the many debates on which current main battle tank is superior, is whether it uses a rifled or smoothbore…

What is Superior, the Rifled or Smoothbored Barrel

A hot point of discussion in the many debates on which current main battle tank is superior, is whether it uses a rifled or smoothbore…