An ambitious £1m plan to restore one of World War Two's most formidable tanks has been launched by a Dorset museum. The King Tiger tank has been in the collection at The Tank Museum, in Bovington, ...

Key Points - The German King Tiger (Tiger II) was one of the most powerful and feared heavy tanks of World War II. -Introduced in 1944, it boasted incredibly thick, sloped frontal armor that was ...

Key Point: Heavy tanks like the King Tiger proved a dead end. After 1945, nations switched to building main battle tanks that had sufficient firepower and armor to breach enemy defenses, like heavy ...

World War II was tank-heavy, as both the Allied and Axis powers fielded thousands of the behemoths. Tanks fought from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the fields of France and deserts of North Africa, ...