The level of armour protection between AFVs varies greatly-a main battle tank will normally be designed to take hits from other tank guns and anti-tank missiles, whilst light reconnaissance vehicles are often only armoured " just in case ".

Unlike a conventional tank water heater, the tank is filled only when there is sunlight.

In their first major use at the Battle of Cambrai ( 1917 ), the plan was for a cavalry division to follow behind the tanks, however they were not able to cross a canal because a tank had broken the only bridge.

This requirement has only been underscored in the west by the appearance of the Russian T-90 main battle tank.

The 1st Armoured had taken over 4th and 22nd Armoured Brigades from 7th Armoured Division which by this time had only three tank regiments between them.

Although the modern term " gun " is often used as a synonym for firearm, in specialist or military use it has a restricted sense referring only to an artillery piece with a relatively high muzzle velocity, such as a field gun, a tank gun, or a gun used in the delivery of naval gunfire ; or in sporting use for a shotgun.

Columbia was the only orbiter launched with its Space Shuttle external tank | external tank painted white, which was later discontinued to save weight.

30 Taliban ( with only 16 rifles ) freed the girls, and hanged the governor from the barrel of a tank.

The tank had been filled to capacity only eight times since it was built a few years previously, putting the walls under an intermittent, cyclical load.

Argon, carried in a small, separate tank, connected only to the inflator of the drysuit is preferred to air, since air conducts heat 50 % faster than argon.

A think tank is often a " tank ", in the intellectual sense: discussion only in a closed circle protected from outside influence isolates the participants, subjects them to several cognitive biases ( groupthink, confirmation bias ) and fosters members ' existing beliefs.

CESD is the only think tank from the Caucasus and Central Asia included in the top think tanks rankings. CESD is also ranked as one of the top 25 domestic economic policy thinks tanks in the world.

The S-IVB uses a common bulkhead between the tanks, so removing it to produce a single larger tank would increase the total load only slightly.

This was largely due to the high casualty rate of both Sheridans and their crews as mines and rocket-propelled grenades ( RPGs ) that would only damage an M48 Patton tank, would destroy the Sheridan and kill or wound most, if not all, of its crew.

The Sheridan was the only air-deployable tank in the inventory.

In this fashion, if it is inadvertently rotated during the dive, it will only rotate so as to give a false reading of increased time below and thus less assumed tank air remaining rather than the opposite.

The only one with tank driving experience, Patton himself backed seven of the light, two-man Renault FT tanks off the train.

The only survivors were the tank crew, Patton, and his orderly Private First Class Joe Angelo, who saved Patton and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

The lat-lons that the NGS gave for the Empire State Building and a certain water tank in Anchorage in the NAD27 system would be different from the current ones, but the calculated distance between them was only 8. 2 meters different from the current estimate.

Unlike its historical counterpart — which had only the two side guns — the tank had a turret and two guns on its sides.

Originally copper pipes were running directly from the brewery and, when in the 90s the brewery moved out of the city, Thor beer replaced the centre of a star with a giant tank.

To commemorate this, the only surviving Mark I tank was sited at Hatfield from 1919 until 1970 before being moved to the Bovington Tank Museum.

He then moved it to a tank, a river and then finally the ocean but to no avail.

Hachaliah's nephew George F. Bailey managed several shows, too, designing a tank in which a hippopotamus could be moved from place to place.

In 1926, the fuel tank was moved forward to under the cowl on most models.

The handkerchief parachute failed to open and land gracefully and the spool " tank " which was propelled by rubber band moved painfully slowly.

Because of changes in land use from orchards to ploughed fields since 1944, it is problematic to establish the exact location of Ekin's Firefly at the beginning of the engagement and even more difficult to know the position of the claimed kill shot as Ekins ' tank moved during the engagement.

Its commander had clearly observed the British advance, but the nearest British tank was unable to traverse its turret to engage and by the time a second tank had moved into position the armoured car had withdrawn.

Bayerlein confirmed Ritgen's orders, but as Ritgen's tanks moved towards Villers-Bocage they ran into a screen of British anti-tank guns, losing one tank that burst into flames.

Price has said of this outfit ' It wasn't the chicest or most subtle garment, but when Jerry moved under the lights she looked like a Siamese fighting fish in a vast blue tank.

His was the only remaining tank force, equipped with 36 Israeli modified Centurion tanks to fight the Syrians for 3 continuous days, until enforcements and reserves were moved into positions.

The driver therefore had to be moved into the big turret, where he was located in the cupola, which rotated so that he was always looking in the direction the tank drove.

It is easily introduced into a fish pond tank, or home aquarium by new fish or equipment which has been moved from one fish-holding unit to another.

This engine would not fit in the rear, and had to be mounted along the left side of the tank, requiring the turret to be moved to the right and rearward.

Meanwhile, in 1949 he moved his tank regiment to Taiwan after the nationalist defeat in Chinese Civil War.

The following day CCR moved to secure the road between Werl and Wickede and captured the towns of Parsit, Bremen, Vierhausen, Schluckingen and Wiehagen capturing 238 German soldiers, 1 Tiger tank, and 3 88 mm anti-tank guns.

The Soviet tank divisions moved into Budapest with the purpose of crushing the revolution at dawn on 4 November 1956.

Camp Benning tank troops were moved to Camp Meade from February 19-21, 1919.

The engine was at the rear and the gun turret ( and commander ) moved to the middle of the tank — this put the driver to the left of the commander in a much better position to communicate with each other.

Also the tank was moved to below the grip frame for better balance and to allow different bottom line arrangements and stocks, instead of the Lone Star ( M-16 style ) grip that had been on the previous Tippmann Semi / Full Auto lines.

Launch was originally set for 23 July but was moved to 24 July to allow time to replace a faulty integrated electronics assembly that controls orbiter / external tank separation.

After Rafal Rohozinski moved from Cambridge University to Canada to set up a private think tank, the SecDev Group replaced Cambridge as a core partner.