Category: Tank destroyers

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers

Tank destroyers were supposed to employ aggressive, high-speed hit-and-run tactics against tanks.

The Tank destroyer command eventually numbered over 100, 000 men and 80 battalions equipped with 36 tank destroyers or towed anti-tank guns each.

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

With just four M18 tank destroyers of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion to assist, the paratroopers attacked units of the 2.

The panzers that had achieved the penetration divided into two columns, one trying to reach Champs from the rear, and were destroyed in detail by two companies of the 1st Battalion 502nd PIR under Lt. Col. Patrick F. Cassidy and four tank destroyers of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

The Panzerjäger I ( German " Tank Hunter 1 ") was the first of the German tank destroyers to see service in the Second World War.

The need for 90 mm gunned tank destroyers was so urgent that, during October – December 1944, 187 conversions of standard Medium Tank M4A3 hulls were produced by Grand Blanc Arsenal.

With just four M18 tank destroyers of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion to assist, the paratroopers attacked units of the 2nd Panzer Division, whose mission was to proceed by secondary roads via Monaville ( just northwest of Bastogne ) to seize a key highway and capture, among other objectives, fuel dumps — for the lack of which the overall German counter-offensive faltered and failed.

Tank destroyers, such as the Hellcat, were to be used against tanks that had already penetrated the front most defense lines.

In a defensive position, many Soviet T-34 / 85 tanks, US Sherman, M10 and M18 Tank destroyers and British Cromwell tanks occasionally " impaled " themselves on StuGs while engaging in offensive tactics.

Category: Tank destroyers

Category: Tank destroyers

Category: Tank destroyers of World War II

Category: Tank destroyers

Category: Tank destroyers

Combat vehicles without turrets, with the main armament mounted in the hull, or more often in an integral armored casemate as part of the main hull, saw extensive use by German and Russian forces during World War II as Tank destroyers and assault guns.

Tank retting, by contrast, employs vats usually made of concrete, requires about four to six days, and is feasible in any season.

The first single from 1995's otherwise buoyant Post and a featured track on the Tank Girl soundtrack, the song's pounding industrial beat, menacing synth bass, and unusually aggressive lyrics (" And if you complain once more / You'll meet an army of me ") stand in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and to most of her previous work.

; Tank destroyer doctrine

However, heavy losses and recurrent mechanical difficulties reduced the effectiveness of the Corps, leading the Bovington Tank School to adopt a doctrine that emphasised caution and high standards of maintenance in equal measure.

Tank doctrine in the UK declared that one group of tanks would accompany infantry in a similar role to World War I, while another group of ' cruiser ' tanks would then exploit a breakthrough, in a role similar to cavalry.

Though the U. S. had established the Tank Corps in WWI using French Renault FT ( and Six Ton Model 1917 tanks, copies of Renault FTs ) and British MK tanks, and some officers like Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Jr. emerged from that war initially as avid proponents of continuing and developing an American armoured force, the rapid reduction of the forces and apathy and even antipathy towards funding and maintaining armed forces in the inter-war years led to relative stagnation of armoured doctrine in the United States.

Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co. v. Linde Air Products Co., 339 U. S. 605 ( 1950 ), was an important United States Supreme Court decision in the area of patent law, establishing the propriety of the doctrine of equivalents, and explaining how and when it was to be used.

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

In May 2002, Coxon left Blur during the recording of their seventh album Think Tank ( 2003 ).

The U. S. Army uses reactive armour on its Abrams tanks as part of the TUSK ( Tank Urban Survivability Kit ) package and on Bradley vehicles and the Israelis use it frequently on their American built M-60 tanks.

* Trance pioneers Salt Tank sampled the line " Do you know Carolina, where the biscuits are soft and sweet " on their 1996 release " Eugina ".

They play their home games at the HP Pavilion at San Jose, known locally as the Shark Tank.

In 1965 PPG obtained a license from an English firm to use their prints to build a Float Tank and Tin Bath.

Several Tank players ( including Glenn Presnell ) continued their football careers by joining the nearby Portsmouth Spartans who continued the annual tradition until their demise after the 1933 season.

Some of these films, such as Vice Squad ( 1953 ) proved excellent in their own right, while others, such as 1958's Tank Battalion, were critical and commercial failures.

During Operation Barbarossa, ninety percent of the T-35s lost by the 67th and 68th Tank Regiments were lost not to enemy action but through either mechanical failure or because they were abandoned and destroyed by their crews.

The Think Tank is an area designed to educate visitors about how animals think and learn about their surroundings.

The Think Tank features several interactive displays that teach visitors how zoologists conduct their studies.

China would have their own with Yaksa, Twisted Machine, AK-47, Overheal Tank.

* Tank teleport ( invention ): Teleports tanks standing on top of it directly to their destinations.

Leaving Eighth Army to continue their advance, at 07: 00 16 July the 1st Parachute Brigade were transported in trucks to Syracuse, where they embarked on a Landing Ship Tank.

Apart from navigating heighliners ferrying the troops of the three Houses to Arrakis, Navigators have also been utilized by the Guild in the War of Assassins in the Emperor: Battle for Dune computer game as pilots for their NIAB Tanks ( a hover tank that projects a single electrical bolt ) and NIAP Flyers ( an aerial version of the NIAB Tank, although without any weapons of its own ).

From 1885 to 1901, locomotives stopped at Young Tank to replenish their water.

" At a time when other US oil companies were promoting their gasoline products with campaigns such as Exxon / Esso's " Put A Tiger in Your Tank!

During this time, Blur began the recording sessions that would produce the material for their next album, Think Tank.

Tank traps were also built for miles along the Siegfried Line and were known as " dragon's teeth " or " pimples " ( in German Höcker, " humps ") because of their shape.

The machine gun-armed tanks were never used in combat, and only a handful of cannon-armed vehicles saw service in the Pacific ; but their design formed the basis of the later M3 / M5 Light Tank.

M3s of the 194th and 192nd Tank Battalions continued to skirmish with the 4th Tank Regiment's Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks as they continued their retreat down the Bataan Peninsula, with the last tank versus tank combat occurring on 7 April 1942.

With the IJA's drive toward India within the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations ( CBI ), the United Kingdom hastily withdrew their 2nd Royal Tank Regiment and 7th Hussars Stuart tank units ( which also contained some M2A4 light tanks ) from North Africa, and deployed them against the Japanese 14th Tank Regiment.