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Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (English: 'mouse') was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in July of 1944. As of 2025, it is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed; the turret being attached before the testing grounds were captured by the ...
Strategy & Tactics #44, which contained Tank! as a free pull-out game. Tank!, subtitled "Armored Combat in the 20th Century", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publiucations Inc. (SPI) in 1974 that simulates tank versus tank and tank versus infantry combat set anywhere from World War II to the middle of the twentieth century.
Armoured warfare or armored warfare (American English; see spelling differences), is the use of armoured fighting vehicles in modern warfare. It is a major component of modern methods of war. [1] The premise of armored warfare rests on the ability of troops to penetrate conventional defensive lines through use of manoeuvre by armoured units. [2]
Type 1 Ho-Ni I tank destroyer; Type 1 Ho-Ni II 105 mm tank destroyer; Type 3 Ho-Ni III tank destroyer; Type 5 Na-To tank destroyer; Type 1 Ho-Ha armoured halftrack; Type 74 105 mm self-propelled howitzer; Type 75 155 mm self-propelled howitzer; Type 99 155 mm self-propelled howitzer; Type 60 self-propelled 106 mm recoilless gun; Type 60 armored ...
The French Army had up to 4,000 tanks, including 300 Char B1 heavy tanks, armed with a 47 mm (1.85 in) gun in the turret and a larger 75 mm (2.95 in) low-velocity howitzer in the hull. The French also had around 250 Somua S-35 , widely regarded as one of the best tanks of the period, armed with the same 47 mm (1.85 in) main gun and protected by ...
The effect of anti-tank warfare is to destroy or damage enemy tanks, or to prevent enemy tanks, and their supporting troops from maneuvering, which is the primary ability of a tank. In the US Army the degree of effect by an anti-tank weapon on a vehicle is referred to as either " mobility kill ", " firepower kill ", and " catastrophic kill ".
The Tankgewehr M1918 (transl. Tankgun), also known as the Mauser 13mm anti-tank rifle and T-Gewehr in English, [2] [3] is a German anti-tank rifle [4] —the first rifle designed for the sole purpose of destroying armored targets—and the only anti-tank rifle to see service in World War I. Approximately 16,900 were produced.
The Czech LT-38 tank, then in production, was produced for German use as the Panzer 38(t) ("t" standing for tschechisch, German for Czech). By the start of the war, 78 Panzer 38(t) tanks had been produced. Germany continued producing the Panzer 38(t) during the war. By early 1942, it was clearly obsolete.