After the successful Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939 and 1940 that significantly extended Germany’s domains, Adolf Hitler prepared its armies to conquer the Soviet Union.

With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor ...

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German online brokers Trade Republic and ... The issue arose as stocks in Germany and elsewhere suffered big drops as investors grappled with the possibility of a ...

Rheinmetall's value has more than tripled since Donald Trump became U.S. president in January, alongside those of many other big European defense companies ... Now Germany's economy could rely on ...

"My tank is quite empty at the minute," the star told German broadcaster ZDF ahead of a 10-date residency in Munich. "I don’t have any plans for new music at all," she said. "I want a big break ...

However, the German blitzkrieg demonstrated this was ... to the Soviet T-80 main battle tank — it represented a big evolution in tank design, and proved its mettle in the Gulf War, destroying ...

German Leopard 2A5 tank parked at a European training area. Ukraine received about 80 tanks like this from its European allies in 2023. Image published by the European Parliamentary Research Service ...

One big factor in the momentum of combat ... opposing forces needed to have in their locker, too. The German army developed its own tanks during World War I, and they proved just as surprising ...

Partner nations provided Ukraine with mountains of military hardware, including formidable third-generation German-made main battle tanks, armored infantry fighting vehicles, and massive amounts of ...

The exception to this practical Soviet approach is the T-64. This tank was fitted with the 5TDF engine which tried to copy a German wartime bomber engine. 2-3,000 T-64s in storage will never return to ...