This video outlines (in 5 vehicles) how Germany created the tank destroyer and then improved upon it. From 47mm to 128mm guns ...

As Nazi Germany's panzers rolled through Europe, the U.S. military faced an urgent dilemma: how do you stop a tank blitzkrieg? Enter the ambitious, controversial, and deadly Tank Destroyer concept.

In the 1970s, German industry developed the Panther tank-destroyer—in essence, a Leopard 1 tank chassis armed with remotely-fired anti-tank missiles fixed to a 60-foot telescoping mast.

This was a fine concept, but Germany already had the Pak 43, a smaller seventy-one-caliber, eighty-eight-millimeter gun that could still penetrate the heaviest Allied tanks such as the Churchill ...

Active, self-propelled tank-destroyer battalions were judged to have killed 34 tanks each on average, and about half as many guns and pillboxes. Some units, such as the 601st, reported more than ...

S/Sgt. Choate’s tank destroyer, the only weapon available to oppose the German armor, was set afire by 2 hits. “Ordering his men to abandon the destroyer, S/Sgt. Choate reached comparative safety.

Back To The Bricks attendees heard plenty of cacklefests from participating muscle cars on Saturday, but not much compares to the sound of the 1944 M-18 Buick "Hellcat" tank destroyer from World ...

After years of delay caused by budgetary uncertainty, the Italian Army is expected to sign a contract that will finally kick start low-rate production of the long-awaited Centauro II mobile gun system ...