The first and only German tank of World War I, the A7V, was a sophisticated model that was faster and better-protected than the Allied models that faced it. Capable of 9 mph, ...

The first tanks, effectively, were primarily designed to beat stalemates. When British-designed tanks arrived at the Battle of the Somme in World War I, nothing like them had ever been seen on a ...

Starting with World War I, when they first appeared, tanks introduced the idea that an armored all-terrain vehicle could break the stalemate of trench warfare.

Around the highway junction of St. Trond one fine May day, and around Gembloux, 100 miles northeast of the Somme where nine British tanks first surprised the Germans 25 years ago, it was reported ...

Tanks were first invented in World War I, ... In 1944, the Panther became the first tank in the world equipped with a night vision system, the F.G.1250 Ziel und Kommandanten-Optic.

A tank crew ‘splatter’ face mask belonging to Corporal Walter H Stickler, who served in the crew of a Mark IV tank at the Battle of Cambrai during the First World War, has been donated to The ...

The hybrid Holt tank showed promise, but the U.S. military never deployed it during World War I. The in-house “America First” prototype was a case of good initiative and bad judgment.

On what early tanks were designed for in the first World War The massacre of soldiers pouring out of trenches and going across no man's land was so horrific, that everybody was trying to think of ...