The Challenger

18/09/2025

15 August 1944 - A Cromwell of the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division driving through Vassy, Normandy.

Photo Credit-Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 9231

16/09/2025

The crew of a Tiger I (223) sorting stowage-somewhere on the Eastern Front, September 1943.

14/09/2025

Tiger Day 🐅
Tiger day is almost upon us - 20th September 2025
See Tiger "131" in action – the world’s only running Tiger I
All the detail here : https://tankmuseum.org/events/tiger-day-autumn

13/09/2025

Big News from The Tank Museum😃

12/09/2025

Designed by the British aircraft and munitions inventor, Barnes Wallis, and codenamed 'Grand Slam' this bomb was almost 26 foot long and weighed 22,000 pounds 😮 Designed to pe*****te deep underground before detonating, its “earthquake bomb” design aimed to target and destroy heavily reinforced structures that couldn’t be damaged by conventional means.

10/09/2025

Before the Tank-The horses of the Heavy Cavalry- Armoured, well armed and mobile their primary role was to engage in direct combat with enemy forces "shock and awe" Sound familiar.
One of the last cavalry charges of WWI came at the Battle of the Somme on July 14th 1916 at High Wood– a German strongpoint that was holding up the British advance. Amongst other units men from the 20th Deccan Horse (Indian cavalry unit) charged the German positions.
The attack cost them dearly with 102 men killed along with 130 horses.
It was only two months later that the tank made its first combat appearance in the battle for Flers-Courcelette.

08/09/2025

One hell of a plough😟
The Ramschaufelpanzer StuG IV......
March 1944

05/09/2025

Looking forward 😀😀

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05/09/2025

US troops examine a Sturmtiger (April 1945).
The main armament was a short-barrelled 38cm Raketenwerfer RW61 L/5.4 originally designed for the German Navy by Rheinmetall Borsig for use in anti-submarine warfare. Each projectile combined a Treibsatz 4581 rocket motor with a high explosive or hollow charge. Each round weighed a massive 726 lb (330 kg) and was over 5 feet long (1.52 m). The crane located on the rear was used in loading these huge projectiles.
The round was capable of penetrating 2.5m of steel reinforced concrete.😟

04/09/2025

The Battle of Kursk marked the first combat use of the new German Panther medium tank a design in response to German encounters with the T-34 in 1941. It was intended to replace the Panzer III and IV but there is no doubt that it was rushed into service before all its teething troubles had been resolved. Plagued with mechanical and logistical problems coupled with a lack of crew training time the Panther certainly didnt live up to Hitlers aspirations.

02/09/2025

There's bogged then there's "bogged" 😟

01/09/2025

A great event over the weekend The Victory Show😁
Great to catch up with so many folks. 😀