TANKFEST 2025 is only a few days away, and the most anticipated guest at this year’s event has arrived at the Tank Museum.

Today in War History · 1582, Battle of Yamazaki · 1900, First Zeppelin flight · 1916, Hans-Ulrich Rudel is born · 1961, Ernest Hemingway dies · 1976, End of South Vietnam · 1973, Ferdinand Schörner ...

The CIA believed the Soviets were looking into harnessing ESP for their espionage efforts. (Photo Credit: KEYSTONE-FRANCE / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images) Project Stargate was a multimillion-dollar ...

Left: US bombers dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder. Right: The French Naval Air Force drops napalm over Viet Minh guerrilla positions during an ambush (December 1953).

The design of Pigeon Lofts changed over the course of the war. The Pigeon Loft was never intended to be used on the battlefield. Once the conflict started, the vehicles were moved from the streets of ...

With constant redesigning, adaptation and modifications, the Su-27 became one of the finest air-superiority platforms of the 20th century and is still in service today. Early production of the Sukhoi ...

The Nazi gold train In March 1945, the Nazis set off from the city of Goerlitz with a convoy of artwork from a museum and treasures from Russia’s Amber Room. Legend has it that as the war drew to a ...

5.56 x 45 mm vs 7.62 x 39 mm; when it comes to ammunition, these two cartridges are among the most prolific and well-known. They’re used throughout the globe by a number of military forces who rely on ...

The Vietnam War was infamous for the guerrilla warfare the American forces were largely unprepared for. The Viet Cong were on home turf and used this to their advantage when it came to creating and ...

Two US Air Force F-15C Eagles and a Royal Saudi Air Force F-5E Tiger II during a mission in support of Operation Desert Storm. (Photo Credit: CORBIS / Getty Images) GPS was so new at the time that ...

Fury, 2014. (Photo Credit: Hope72 / Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures / MovieStillsDB) The dire conditions at the end of World War II were tackled in 2014’s Fury, a “ grim, macho tank drama ” written ...

Sir Michael Caine is a legend of the silver screen, with many of his appearances being in war- and military-related movies. He began acting in the 1950s, but didn’t become the star we know and love ...