Converted from a cancelled Tiger design, the Ferdinand tank destroyer entered combat for the first time at Kursk in 1943.

During the Battle of Kursk in July 1943, a lone German Tiger confronted a massed Soviet attack near the front line. Commanded by Franz Staudegger, the tank fought through repeated assaults by T-34s at ...

As Ukraine's seven-month-long incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast came to what appears to be its end, Ukrainian soldiers and military experts are questioning the operation's goal and the long-term ...