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A forum member claiming to be a Challenger 2 tank commander posted images of classified documents pertaining to the tank on the official War Thunder forums. The documents, which contained information about the armor structure of the vehicle, were edited to make them appear declassified under the UK Freedom of Information Act .
The first generation of Soviet missile tanks started in 1956 when V.A. Malyshev was ordered by Nikita Khrushchev to instill a "new thinking" into the weapons design bureaus. Part of this "new thinking" was the development of missile tanks, including the IT-1 firing the Drakon missile and the Taifun-armed Obiekt 297. However, these early tank ...
A7V heavy tank (22; World War I) A7VU heavy tank. Prototype World War I heavy tank, with similar layout (all-round tracks and armament mounted in sponsons) to British tanks. One completed. [43] E-Series prototypes; Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien tank; K Panzerkampfwagen super-heavy tank (2 incomplete; World War I)
Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by an armed force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. In practice, this means applying colour and materials to military equipment of all kinds, including vehicles, ships, aircraft, gun positions and battledress, either to conceal it from observation (), or to make it appear as something else ().
Cobra King is an American Sherman tank of World War II. [a] During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the Germans had attacked a weakly defended section of the Allied line and surrounded American forces in the town of Bastogne. Cobra King was the first tank to enter the Bastogne perimeter in relief of the besieged American 101st Airborne ...
During World War II, the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment was relieved from the 5th Armor Division, reorganized and re-designated as the 772nd Tank Battalion before being sent to Europe. Arriving at Le Havre, France in February 1945, it participated in the Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns.
English: Black and white battlefield photo of Cobra King, a Sherman tank which was the first tank into Bastogne. Crew is outside the tank. Crew is outside the tank. Date
T-80 main battle tank (1976, turret designed at KMDB, tank at the Leningrad Kirov Plant in Russia) T-80UD Bereza, diesel version of the gas-turbine T-80U (1987–2002 by Malyshev, 430 delivered to Pakistan, 4 to the United States) T-80UDK command tank (T-80BV) T-80BVD (2002 prototype) T-80BV upgraded for Ukrainian airborne and marine units