tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the interwar...
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This is a list of think tanks in the United States. 38 North American Foreign Policy Council American Israel Public Affairs Committee American Security...
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As the American army did not have tanks of its own, the French two-man Renault FT Light Tank was used by US in the later stages of World War I. It was...
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History of the tank Tanks in World War I List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles Tanks in World War II Comparison of early World War II tanks Tanks of the...
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Tanks were an important weapons system in World War II. Although tanks in the inter-war years were the subject of widespread research, few were made,...
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The Assault Tank T14 was a joint project between the United States and the United Kingdom with the goal being to produce a universal infantry tank. The...
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M1 Abrams (redirect from M1A1 tanks)
is one of the heaviest tanks in service at nearly 73.6 short tons (66.8 metric tons). It introduced several modern technologies to United States armored...
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M26 Pershing (redirect from Pershing tank)
The M26 Pershing is a heavy tank/medium tank formerly used by the United States Army. It was used in the last months of World War II during the Invasion...
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bunkers; only one built. "United States — Heavy Tanks". Retrieved 1 October 2008. Foss, Christopher (2002). The Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armoured Fighting...
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The tank destroyer battalion was a type of military unit used by the United States Army during World War II. The unit was organized in one of two different...
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with the Eastern Bloc broke out. Its long-ranged 4.7 in (120 mm) cannon was designed to destroy enemy tanks at extreme distances. Some 300 tanks were...
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tank may refer to any of a series of tanks used by the United States military from the 1950s to the 1990s, named for General George S. Patton. Tanks in...
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M48 Patton (redirect from M-48 Patton tanks)
replacement for the M26 Pershing, M4 Sherman, M46 and M47 Patton tanks, and was the main battle tank of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam War...
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The United States provided tens of thousands of its Medium Tank M4, also named the Sherman, to many of its Allies during the Second World War, under the...
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3rd Tank Battalion destroyed 15 Iraqi tanks". The Marines also destroyed 25 APCs and took 300 prisoners of war. The next day, Marine M60A1 tanks encountered...
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was the M2A2, with 239 produced, becoming the main tank of the United States Army during the interwar period. The Spanish Civil War showed that tanks armed...
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limited budgets for tank development in the interwar years, at the outbreak of World War II the United States Army possessed few tanks, though it had been...
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into the Cold War and the present. Over this period Korea has moved from being an operator of United States designed and produced tanks to being the designer...
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that the Germans had new types of heavy tanks that were tough nuts to crack for American tanks and tank destroyers. As a result, the development of several...
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of the tanks to spring from the design program was the Medium Tank T42. This tank would form the basis of the T69 project. The unique feature of the T69...
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The 761st Tank Battalion was an independent tank battalion of the United States Army during World War II. Its ranks primarily consisted of African American...
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"Rhino tank" (initially called "Rhinoceros") was the American nickname for Allied tanks fitted with "tusks", or bocage cutting devices, during World War...
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M4 Sherman (redirect from M4A3 Sherman tank)
The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. The M4 Sherman...
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The following is a list of equipment of the United States Army during World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. World War II was a...
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The 756th Tank Battalion was an independent tank battalion of the United States Army active during World War II and, as the 73rd Tank Battalion, during...
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of the American Heavy Tank. Novato, California: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-304-9. Wikimedia Commons has media related to T29 Heavy Tank. FSU tanks website...
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M3 Stuart (redirect from M5 light tank)
Corps tank battalions were transitioning from their M3/M5 light tanks to M4 medium tanks, mostly for the much greater high-explosive blast effect of the M4's...
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in 2009 tanks to help bolster Afghan tank platoons and may increase this number to almost 50 additional tanks. At least 350 M60 tanks of the Greek Army...
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into tanks began during World War I as an effort to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare, and largely at the initiative of the manufacturers. The Schneider...
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The Medium Tank T20, Medium Tank T22 and Medium Tank T23 were prototype medium tanks, developed by the United States Army during World War II. They were...
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