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Tank Overhaul is a Canadian documentary television program broadcast on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel) starting in 2007. Episodes are filmed at the Isle of Wight Military Museum as well as other organizations specializing in military history vehicle restoration and preservation .
The Wheatcroft Collection is perhaps notable for having a number of extremely valuable and rare Second World War-era German military vehicles, including four Panther tanks, [9] one of which is close to full restoration, a StuG III assault gun, a Panzer III, and a Panzer IV tank and various components from many other vehicles.
M1296 "Dragoon" – All M1126 vehicles will be converted to this standard or attached with 4 Hellfire missiles. M1127 reconnaissance vehicle (RV) M1129 mortar carrier (MC) M1130 command vehicle (CV) M1131 fire support vehicle (FSV) M1132 engineer squad vehicle (ESV) M1133 medical evacuation vehicle (MEV) M1134 anti-tank guided missile vehicle ...
ANAD is the Army's primary site for final assembly, reset, and overhaul for the Stryker family of wheeled fighting vehicles. [9] All ten of the Stryker vehicle variants are assembled in the Nichols Industrial Park area by contractor General Dynamics − Land Systems. Stryker battle damage repair and reset is accomplished through a work sharing ...
Soldiers from 4th Squadron (Dark Horse), 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, complete field testing of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle at Fort Hood, Texas, circa 2018. The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) is a U.S. Army program to replace the M113 armored personnel carrier and family of vehicles. [1]
The combat vehicle component of FCS was the Manned Ground Vehicles program, a family of eight vehicles including an IFV. By substituting active protection systems for armor, the Army sought to reduce the weight of a Manned Ground Vehicle to 20 tons, with transportability by C-130 being the limiting factor.
It was later incorporated in the Army's M8 Armored Gun System light tank, which was canceled in 1996. [17] [18] The M35 is about 1,800 lb (816 kg) lighter than the M68 tank gun used on the M60 tank. [19] In December 2018, GDLS was downselected, along with BAE Systems, to develop prototypes. [20] GDLS presented its first prototype in April 2020 ...
Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer (self propelled anti-tank gun) used by German Panzerjäger (anti-tank units) during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand (after its designer Ferdinand Porsche) using VK 45.01 (P) tank hulls which had been produced for the Tiger I tank before the competing Henschel design had been selected.