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Le Foudroyant, sunk by air attack off the beaches on 1 June; The RAF lost 145 aircraft, of which at least 42 were Spitfires, while the Luftwaffe lost 156 aircraft in operations during the nine days of Operation Dynamo, [146] including 35 destroyed by Royal Navy ships (plus 21 damaged) during the six days from 27 May to 1 June. [147]
Damaged by air attack off Bray on 29 May; left Dynamo for repair on 2 June HMS Impulsive (D11) Royal Navy: Destroyer: 1938: 1,370: Lt. Cdr. William Thomas, RN: 5: 2,917 Damaged by grounding on a wreck off Malo on 31 May; left Dynamo for repair HMS Intrepid (D10) Royal Navy: Destroyer: 1937: 1,370: Cdr. Roderick Cosmo Gordon, RN: 2: 668
Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russia has relied on its T-72s, T-80s, and T-90 tanks, all of which share certain design features. That Soviet-style design — smaller, lighter, and lower to the ...
The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...
The Tank Urban Survival Kit (TUSK) is a series of improvements to the M1 Abrams intended to improve fighting ability in urban environments. [152] Historically, urban and other close battlefields have been poor places for tanks to fight. A tank's front armor is much stronger than that on the sides, top, or rear.
The M103 was designed to counter Soviet heavy tanks. Its long-ranged 120 mm cannon was designed to hit enemy tanks at extreme distances, but it was never used in combat. Of the 300 M103s built, most went to the Marines. [16] The tank was relatively underpowered, and the drive systems were fragile.
Russia, says the International Institute for Strategic Studies, has itself lost over 3,000 tanks in Ukraine amounting to its entire pre-war active inventory, but has enough lower-quality armoured ...
Another such tank, mounted atop the monument to Soviet tank crews in Prague, was the focus of significant controversy. The monument (known locally as 'Saint Tank') was intended to represent Lt I.G. Goncharenko's T-34-85 (the first Soviet tank to enter Prague during the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May 1945), but actually bore an IS-2M heavy ...