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In 1911, he produced and patented the first design of a cross-country fighting vehicle with swivelling gun turret (a tank), based on the gun turrets from naval warships and armoured vehicles using the then decade-old combustion engine. [4] He called his tank the Motorgeschütz (literally "motor-gun").
The 1916 Saint-Chamond tank bore some resemblance to the Levavasseur project in layout, armament (Canon de 75), motorization (80hp engine) and general silhouette. [ 11 ] Levavasseur reworked his mechanism, improved its resistance to hard objects, and brought forward a new improved project in 1908.
Leonardo da Vinci sketch of his armored fighting vehicle. Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with the invention of a war machine that resembled a tank. [6] In the 15th century, a Hussite called Jan Žižka won several battles using armoured wagons containing cannons that could be fired through holes in their sides, but his invention was not used after his lifetime until the 20th century. [7]
The 12N360 (Russian: 12Н360; other designations are A-85-3A or 2V-12-3A) diesel engine is a Russian four-stroke diesel engine produced by the Chelyabinsk Engine Plant. The water-cooled twelve-cylinder X-engine with direct injection was developed to power the Armata Universal Combat Platform, on which the T-14 tank, among others, is based.
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. [15] The previously independent companies KMW and Nexter intended to demonstrate that both could cooperate and jointly develop a next generation tank. [16]
The initial engine choice in 1954 for what was known at the time as "Medium Gun Tank No.2", later designated the "FV4201" and given the service name 'Chieftain', was a Rolls-Royce diesel V8, however during the Chieftain's design phase NATO introduced a policy in 1957 requiring all armoured fighting vehicles to have a multi-fuel capability.
This table compares tanks in use by the belligerent nations of Europe and the Pacific at the start of the Second World War, employed in the Polish Campaign (1939), the Battle of France (1940), Operation Barbarossa (1941), and the Malayan Campaign (1942).
However, it was developed in a secret program under the cover name "Traktor". Its engine was mounted inside the front portion of the hull and the turret was mounted above the fighting compartment in the rear of the tank. Both Rheinmetall and Krupp produced prototypes, and in 1928, Rheinmetall's design was chosen and was awarded an order for 289 ...