Battle of Targu Frumos During April and May of 1944, the Soviet 2nd Tank Army tried to break through the German-Romanian lines on the river Pruth in order to gain access to Central Romania with its ...

The German King Tiger (Tiger II) was one of the most powerful and feared heavy tanks of World War II. -Introduced in 1944, it ...

The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank was a German heavy tank that served on the Eastern Front, ... Tiger tanks killed 11.52 tanks for every one of their own destroyed in battle.

Built on a Tiger II chassis, sporting an enormous 12.8 cm cannon and holding the distinction of being the heaviest armored vehicle to serve in World War II, weighing in at 72.5 tons battle ...

The largest tank battle in history , the Battle of Kursk, involved an estimated 10,613 tanks — 3,253 German tanks and 7,360 Soviet Union tanks. This conflict turned the tide on the eastern front.

The battle saw over 600 Soviet tanks from the 5th Guards Tank Army smash head on into around 300 German tanks from the II SS-Panzer Corps. The fighting was some of the most intense in the history ...

Total Russian tanks lost amounted to 800, as compared to 200 German tanks lost. 5. The Second Battle of El Alamein ... (though the Tiger and Ferdinand tanks were starting to close the gap). ...

The turret of a German World War II Tiger II "King Tiger" tank is seen during restoration works at the Swiss Military Museum Full in Full, Switzerland March 22, 2021.

Tanks have been a feature of warfare since September 15, 1916, when a British Mk. I heavy tank lurched toward German positions at the Battle of Flers Courcelette, during the Somme offensive of ...

The Battle of the Valley of Tears was fought in the Golan Heights, the area between Syria and Israel, during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Of Syria’s 1,400 tanks, about 400 were T-62s, state-of ...