The Mephisto tank first arose as a sort of evolution of armored cars that were already starting to find a role in combat, like the British Royal Naval Air Service's Rolls Royce Ghosts of 1914. Such ...

Mephisto, a unique weapon of war and the only surviving German A7V tank from World War I, has gone on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra as part of centenary commemorations. Its ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The first tanks were invented in a desperate attempt to end the agony ...

The armoured behemoth is the only German tank to have emerged intact from the carnage of the Western Front and the Australian troops who seized it made sure to take personal mementos, stripping out ...

Germany’s A7V was the nation’s first operational tank, entering combat in 1917 with six machine guns, a 57mm gun often of captured origin, and an 18 man crew. This episode examines its design, ...

The only German WW1 combat tank still in existence is set to go on permanent display in Queensland later this year to remember the Australian battalion that captured it 100 years ago. Stefan ...

First World War German tank Mephisto spent the last six months on display at the Workshops Rail Museum at North Ipswich but after a tricky late night operation, it's gone. The tank now lives at the ...

The story of how the only remaining German tank from the Great War got into Australian hands has been commemorated in Brisbane. A book on the daring capture of a German WWI tank by Australian soldiers ...

MEPHISTO, a World War I tank captured by a Brisbane schoolteacher and his troops, is the centrepiece of the Queensland Museum’s new gallery, commemorating the armistice centenary. It goes on display ...