The U.S. Army recognized the value of a fast-moving, mobile rocket platform that could be used in the liberation of Europe. It equipped an M4 Sherman tank with 60 plastic rocket tubes, each of ...

The rocket engines provided a huge boost of forward momentum, sending a tank weighing 40 or more tons flying through mud. Although definitely bold, the system was dangerous and likely too ...

In World War II, tanks were critical weapons of warfare, but despite their formidable power, they were not invincible. The ...

There are few iconic tanks like the American ... which is one of the best tank destroyers of WW2. ... by adding 60 tubes mounted above the M4 Sherman capable of launching the 4.5-inch M8 rocket.

In 1942, three years after the outbreak of World War II and one year after the United States officially joined the fray, the Allied forces encountered a problem: Dangerous Axis tanks rolling ...

The multiple launch rocket system, or MLRS, is a revolutionary rocket artillery weapons system that found its modern origins in World War II. Tanks dominated the battlefield in the first half of ...

This is a light, mobile, dependable weapon with a rapid rate of fire (10-15 rounds a minute). It was the most used artillery weapon of World War II, can lob its shells as far as 12,500 yards.

The Panjandrum, a rocket-propelled explosive cart, was one of the more curious weapons to have come out of World War II. British Government/Wikimedia Commons 2023-01-01T18:29:42Z ...

Four M6-series 60mm anti-tank rocket rounds were removed Dec. 16, 2020, from a construction site on Camp Foster, Okinawa, shown here Dec. 19, 2020. (Frank Andrews/Stars and Stripes) ...