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335 (M3 variant) [1] The Canal Defence Light (CDL) was a British "secret weapon" of the Second World War, based upon the use of a powerful carbon-arc searchlight mounted on a tank. It was intended to be used during night-time attacks, when the light would allow enemy positions to be targeted. A secondary use of the light would be to dazzle and ...
Fort Wayne is located in the city of Detroit, Michigan, at the foot of Livernois Avenue in the Delray neighborhood. The fort is situated on the Detroit River at a point where it is under half a mile to the Ontario shore. The original 1848 limestone barracks (with later brick additions) still stands, as does the 1845 fort (renovated in 1863 with ...
Indianapolis Contemporary, Indianapolis, dissolved in 2020 47. John Dillinger Museum, Crown Point, closed in 2017 48. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Fort Wayne. The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, closed June 30, 2008 49. Morris-Butler House, Indianapolis, no longer open for public tours.
Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armoured fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated during the Second World War by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal Engineers.
3.7 mph (6.0 km/h) maximum [ 1 ] British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War. The Mark I was the world's first tank, a tracked, armed, and armoured vehicle, to enter combat. The name "tank" was initially a code name to maintain secrecy and disguise its true purpose.
An outstanding achievement of the British Army had been the creation of the Experimental Mechanised Force in the late 1920s. This was a small Brigade-sized unit developed to field-test the use of tanks and other vehicles. The unit pioneered the extensive use of radio to control widely separated small units.
Historic Fort Wayne, seen here in 2014, is a recreation of the 1815 garrison. 41°5′7.91″N85°8′10.78″W / 41.0855306°N 85.1363278°WFort Wayne was a series of three successive military log stockades existing between 1794 and 1819 on the confluence between the St. Mary's and St. Joseph Rivers in northeastern Indiana, in what is ...
The last British Regiment equipped with Chieftains was the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, which was based at Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth. A former Iranian Army Chieftain Mk.5 main battle tank on display at the Kubinka Tank Museum. The first model was introduced in 1967. Chieftains were supplied to at least six countries, including Iran, Kuwait, Oman ...