For months Syrian rebels have taken matters into their own hands, but now they’ve seriously stepped up their game: a home-made tank. We’re not just talking about a car with a some metal attached to it ...

Susana Seijas is a CBS News producer based in Mexico City. MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican authorities seized two homemade tank-like vehicles in the northern state of Tamaulipas on June 4. The armored, ...

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. -- French mathematician Henri Poincare One could be ...

Key point: The Arjun was supposed to be a wonderful new weapon. However, it ended up being poorly made, overbudget, and greatly delayed. In the mid-1970s, India began development on a totally new, ...

The ongoing battle in Syria has continued to escalate within recent days. As NBC News reports, the Syrian military is preparing to potentially use its stockpiles of chemical weapons, having “loaded ...

Key Point: ISIS is primarily using modified version of the Russian T-55 and T-62 tanks. Mix-and-match tanks are nothing new. The Nazis mounted captured Russian artillery pieces on looted ...

Not to be upstaged by the rocket-powered john, these guys built a home made tank (complete with what appears to be a non-functioning turret). If you lived in (what appears to be) upstate New York ...