When Essex engineer Roland Hopper retired he described himself as "bored to tears" and disappeared into his garden shed. Ten years later he had designed and built a highly-detailed model of a World ...

Land combat in World War II was dominated by the tank. The role of these hefty vehicles changed somewhat as the war evolved, with new models being manufactured and their weapons and defenses evolving.

Key Point: Armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more ...

A 98-year-old veteran defied all logic and took the anti-Tesla protest to epic proportions by smashing a Model 3 with a World War II Sherman tank, marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day ...

A retiree built an eight-foot-long remote-control transporter lorry complete with a tank on it as his wife had taken up golf and he was “bored to tears”. Roland Hopper, 79, used the controls to drive ...

Key point: The Sherman tank was useful because it was reliable but it was also not the best technology had to offer. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. The same American tanks were ...