June, 1948. A jungle road south of Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya. A Bedford 3-ton lorry moves through the trees. Soft canvas sides, open top, eight soldiers inside, rifles across...
Today, we’re breaking down every gun on main battle tanks currently in service. Who uses what, how they actually work, and which ones are now dominating in a real fight....
June 1941, Montreal Locomotive Works, Quebec. Canadian engineers unveil their country’s first homegrown tank. It has a cast hull, a fully traversing turret, and bolted to the left side of...
Hello friends. Today the focus of our attention is the legendary German Hetzer, a machine that became a symbol of ambush warfare. Technically, it is a light anti-tank self-propelled gun,...
The panser fast was a revolutionary idea in its brutal simplicity. A disposable launch tube firing a large shaped charge warhead capable of penetrating heavy armor at short range. Unlike...
21 tanks, one regiment, one month of operations. The Queen’s Bays, one of the oldest cavalry regiments in the British Army, filed a mechanical breakdown report in January 1942 that...
1939, Biscot Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. Inside a factory that smells of cutting oil and welded steel, a truck rolls off the line and onto the loading yard. It is painted...
1940, a garage in Cairo owned by the Thomas Cook Travel Company. British engineers are doing something that would make any Rolls-Royce enthusiast physically ill. They are unbolting the armored...
Michael Jackson walks onto a stage in Bucharest, Romania in front of 70,000 people and gets booed. Not politely ignored, not met with silence. Booed. The sound of tens of...
New York City, 1974. Inside the velvet-lined walls of Carnegie Hall, the air seemed to shimmer with money, tradition, and judgement. Crystal chandeliers glowed above men in black tuxedos and...