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Challenger 3 (CR3) is a British fourth-generation main battle tank in development for the British Army.It will be produced by the conversion of existing Challenger 2 tanks by the British/German Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land joint venture.
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. [3] Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. [3]
2024 Estlink 2 incident Eagle S slowed significantly while passing Estlink 2. Eagle S Patrol vessel Turva Date 25 December 2024 Time 12.26 (Eastern European Time) Location Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea Type maritime incident Cause Under investigation; suspected sabotage Suspects 8 crew members placed on travel bans On 25 December 2024 at 12:26 EET, the Estlink 2 submarine power cable had an ...
The Tank Destroyer Force, meanwhile, concluded that the same 75 mm gun M3 as used on the M4 Sherman medium tank would be better for a tank destroyer. The second pilot T49 was built with the 75 mm gun in an open-topped turret as the 75 mm Gun Motor Carriage T67 and was delivered in November 1942.
The Challenger 2 is the third vehicle of this name, the first being the A30 Challenger, a World War II design using the Cromwell tank chassis with a 17-pounder gun. The second was the Persian Gulf War era Challenger 1, which was the British army's main battle tank (MBT) from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed in downtown and caught fire along the James River in Lynchburg, Va., leading to the evacuation of nearby buildings, but ...
This approach, almost universal today, was first used by Swan in the Nobel tankers Blesk, Lumen, and Lux. [14] [16] The Glückauf grounded in heavy fog at Blue Point Beach on Fire Island. Others point to the Glückauf, another design of Colonel Swan, as being the first modern oil tanker. It adopted the best practices from previous oil tanker ...
MV Volgoneft-212 (Волгонефть-212) was a Project 1577 Volgoneft oil tanker that was built in the Soviet Union in 1969. She broke in two in a storm in the Kerch Strait in 2024, causing the 2024 Kerch Strait oil spill. Another Project 1577 tanker, Volgoneft-239, ran aground nearby in the same storm.