The King Tiger, or Tiger II, was a World War II German heavy tank. The German designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B, which was produced between 1943 and 1945. The King Tiger had the thick armor of the Tiger I and the sloped armor of the Panther tank. Although it was slow, no other tank [...]

The Tiger I was a World War II German tank which was produced from late 1942 until 1945. Because of its thick armor of high quality steel and fire power from its main gun, it was deemed the best tank of the war. It took ten Sherman tanks to destroy a tiger. Shells fired from 75mm artillery [...]

The Panzer IV was a World War II German medium tank. It was developed in the 1930s and used extensively during the war. Its ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 161. It was designed by Krupp in 1936 as an infantry support tank, but soon assumed a tank-fighting role to counter the threat of the new [...]

The SOMUA S35 was a World War II, French, medium-weight tank. It was produced from 1936 until 1940 and was for its time superior in armor and armament to several foreign competitors. It was manufactured from well-sloped, mainly cast, armor sections, which made it expensive to build and maintain. The SOMUA S35 was designed in [...]

The Mark I tank was a British World War I tank, which was designed as a need to put an end to the stalemate of trench warfare by overcoming the machine gun fire, barbed wire, trenches, and other obtacles which characterized the Great War. The British Mark I was the first tank to see action [...]

The Renault FT-17 was a French tank which was extensively used in World War I as it was manufactured in 1917. It was the first tank made with a fully rotating turret on top, engine in the back and the driver in front; a configuration that has been repeated in the majority of tanks until [...]