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, ...
The design of the ARL-44 heavy tank actually took shape under the German occupation of France, according to the excellent tank history website Tanks-Encyclopedia.com. “During the occupation, the ...
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 ...