In 1914, during the start of World War 1, French engineer Louis Boirault created one of the strangest-looking military vehicles of all time with the invention of the Boirault Machine. This bizarre ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: But the Boirault No. 2 suffered the same fate as the Boirault No. 1—cancelation. Both machines were unwieldy and probably would not have withstood artillery shells as ...

The brutal trench warfare during the First World War proved to be fertile ground for new technology, and fundamentally transformed warfare. Barbed wire was used to create barriers against infantry and ...

Tanks are a staple of ground warfare. Militaries around the world deploy a wide range of tanks, but typically they conform to some basic principals. In nearly all of them, a large turret sits on top ...

Before tanks became symbols of mechanized warfare, inventors experimented with radical concepts. The Boirault Machine was one of the strangest early attempts to break trench deadlock. Its unusual ...

Tanks are a staple of ground warfare. Militaries around the world deploy a wide range of tanks, but typically they conform to some basic principals. In nearly all of them, a large turret sits on top ...

Tanks are a staple of ground warfare. Militaries around the world deploy a wide range of tanks, but typically they conform to some basic principals. In nearly all of them, a large turret sits on top ...