An employee works on a Leopard 2 main battle tank at the KNDS Unterstadt plant in Kassel. The German military, the Bundeswehr, is set to receive its first new-generation main battle tank, with defence ...

World War II produced some of the most famous armored vehicles in military history. Tanks became a central part of how armies fought, and certain designs quickly gained reputations among soldiers who ...

By Maria Rugamer March 5 (Reuters) - Renk Group, a key supplier of transmissions for Leopard 2 tanks, on Thursday reported ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Germany has started its first major permanent deployment of a brigade abroad since World War II. It is bringing advanced Leopard ...

Germany captured an American Sherman tank in North Africa and tested it exhaustively throughout 1943. What German engineers discovered challenged their assumptions about armored warfare, reliability, ...

Lithuania has appropriated roughly €700 million for 44 advanced Leopard 2A8 tanks—but rather than buying them from Germany outright, it has arranged to build them in its own factories.

German Leopard 2 tank units are organized into platoons, companies, and battalions with detailed rank structures for enlisted personnel, NCOs, and officers. Each tank is crewed by four soldiers and ...

The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...

Here is a selection of their responses, which have been edited for brevity. I served in the United States Army from 1987 to 1991 and was deployed to Germany during the cold war. Like Mark Urban, I ...

BERLIN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Germany's parliamentary budget committee on Wednesday cleared more than 50 billion euros ($58.60 billion) in defence contracts over the next few years, as Russia's war in ...