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 ...

Long before the tank became a battlefield staple, engineers were experimenting with wild ideas. One of the strangest was the Boirault Machine — a massive rolling frame built by the French in World War ...

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 ...