Following a complex three-day salvage operation, underwater specialists successfully raised a historic AMO-2 three-ton truck from a depth of four meters at the bottom of the Msta River. The vehicle, a...
In a major historical recovery operation, military personnel from the Russian Ministry of Defense successfully brought rare World War II-era heavy equipment to the surface from the bottom of the Don R...
During the high-speed, dynamic battles of World War II, military commanders quickly discovered a major flaw in traditional artillery: towed field guns simply could not keep pace with fast-moving armor...
Pitkäranta (Karelian: Pitkyrandu), a scenic district town in the Republic of Karelia, holds a captivating piece of military history. At the intersection of Pushkin, Gogol, and Gorky streets stands a T...
When people think of WWII German armor, iconic heavyweights like the Tiger or Panther usually come to mind. Yet, the real workhorse of the German armored forces from 1940 to mid-1943 was actually the ...
On January 18, 1945, as German forces retreated westward under intense pressure from the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front, a rare piece of World War II history met a watery fate near Koło, Poland. Decades...
A centuries-old discovery on a remote beach in Australia is challenging everything we thought we knew about the nation’s early maritime history. New scientific dating tests reveal that a bronze ...
Among the heavy armor on display at the “Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad” Museum-Reserve, one exhibit immediately commands attention: a Soviet KV-1 heavy tank painted in winter whit...
During routine construction at an elementary school in a Tokyo suburb, crews made a remarkable and hazardous historical discovery. Moreover, they uncovered a massive, long-buried cache of World War II...
As water levels in the Danube River dropped to record lows near Budapest, military historians stumbled upon an astonishing find resting in the riverbed. A World War II-era German DKW motorcycle was un...
