November 20, 2024: The Oto Melara 76mm cannon is housed in a 7.5-ton turret and remotely controlled by the fire control officer on the ship's bridge. The cannon is water cooled and able to fire up to ...

In his 1903 short story, science fiction writer H.G. Wells imagined that the wars of the future would be won by towering ‘Land Ironclads’—a term referencing nineteenth-century armored warships. Just ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The multi-turret land battleship proved to be a blind alley in tank development—there was nothing one oversized and over-gunned tank could do that several, much ...