For a full week before the launch of the battle, the German trenches had been placed under constant artillery bombardment. The aim was to destroy the trenches and defences. The bombardment was so ...

Winning the biggest tank battle in history - against Nazi Germany at Kursk in 1943 - remains a great source of pride ... and the new mobile Ferdinand artillery gun. War photographer Anatoly ...

stated that the war in Ukraine resembles the Battle of the Somme from World War I but with the use of GPS systems that significantly improve artillery precision. The Russians use artillery systems ...

Kremlin forces are firing 20,000 unguided artillery rounds a day, carpet bombing the ground and levelling the landscape. It's evocative of the grinding battles of Ypres, the harrowing scenes at ...