It all started with the Mark I—the world’s first combat-ready tank. In this video, we take a look inside this groundbreaking ...

In the 1991 Gulf War, Challenger 1 were credited with destroying 300 Soviet-built tanks, including one knocked out from nearly 3 miles, the longest-range tank-on-tank kill in history.

Sherman tanks would be an important part of the Allies' arsenal during World War II, a conflict that would be shaped by the use of tank tactics.The very first Shermans began to be manufactured for ...

Tanks were invented more than 100 years ago. ... KELLY: So paint us a picture of the situation that the first early tanks were designed for back in the First World War.

However, the Heavy Tank M6—America's first heavy tank—wasn't a successful design, remaining stateside throughout the war and declared obsolete even before Germany surrendered.

A hundred years ago this week, British and German tanks made history on the battlefields of World War I. In the last year of war, at the French town of Villers-Bretonneux, the two sides clashed in ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with historian Antony Beevor about the role tanks play in warfare and how Ukraine might benefit from them. Tanks were invented more than 100 years ago. How have they ...