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Albion can also carry their various associated armoured vehicles, up to the size of the Challenger 2 main battle tank. Vehicles can be deployed through an internal dock, using the ship's complement of four Landing Craft Utility (LCUs), while troops can be deployed from davits using four Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVPs).
This is a list of main battle tanks, and other vehicles serving that role, in active military service with countries of the world. A main battle tank (MBT) is the type of powerful, heavily armoured and highly mobile tank which is the backbone of a mechanized land force.
Albion was commissioned in 2003 and Bulwark in 2005. Each of the ships has a crew of 325 and can accommodate up to 405 troops. Thirty-one large trucks and thirty-six smaller vehicles and main battle tanks can be carried inside the vehicle deck.
Kumbhir-class (LST) Tank Landing Ship. Builder: India; Displacement: 1,120 tons (standard) Operator: Indian Navy: 4 in service; LST-117-class (LST) Tank Landing Ship. Builder: United States; Displacement: 2,366 tons; Operator: Indonesian Navy: 3 in service; LST Mk 2-class (LST) Tank Landing Ship LST Mk 2-class (LST) Tank Landing Ship. Builder ...
HMS Albion was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class.Intended for service in Asia, Albion and her sister ships were smaller and faster than the preceding Majestic-class battleships, but retained the same battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) guns.
Albion, with a Turkish vessel exploding at the Battle of Navarino, drawn by George Philip Reinagle on HMS Mosquito. Just a year later, Albion was part of a combined British-Dutch fleet taking part in the bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816, which was intended to force the Dey of Algiers to free Christian slaves.
Tank classification is a taxonomy of identifying either the intended role or weight class of tanks.The classification by role was used primarily during the developmental stage of the national armoured forces, and referred to the doctrinal and force structure utility of the tanks based on design emphasis.
Meanwhile, at the 2018 Eurosatory, KNDS unveiled the European Main Battle Tank (E-MBT), a hybrid combining the hull of a Leopard 2A7 with the lighter, two-man turret of a Leclerc. [14] The previously independent companies KMW and Nexter intended to demonstrate that both could cooperate and jointly develop a next generation tank. [15]