This proved critical in early tank battles where German tank commanders exploited the organizational advantage over the Allies that radio communication gave them.

Main battle tanks of the late 20th century such as the successful M1 Abrams tank fielded improved conventional 105mm and 120mm guns which proved effective against enemy armor threats.

Later in the battle, it proved necessary to blast tank routes through the forest.

An early experiment by Shell Oil Company in massive oil storage in McCamey proved a failure: local oilmen built a reservoir to hold up to one million barrels of oil in an earthen tank, but the limestone formation underneath the tank cracked under the weight of the crude, allowing much of it to leak into the subsurface.

The July 1997 issue of Jane's International Defence Review confirmed that after the collapse of the USSR, US and German analysts had a chance to examine Soviet-made T-72 tanks equipped with Kontakt-5 ERA, and they proved impenetrable to most modern US and German tank projectiles ; this sparked the development of more modern Western tank ammunition, such as the M829A2 and M829A3.

This proved insufficient in the Battle of Lake Khasan, which took place in 1938, so the tank was upgraded once more in February 1939 to have an underturret box with sloped ( 23 °) 20 mm side armoured plates.

It was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach production but proved to be slow and mechanically unreliable.

There was also minor military cooperation with Sweden, including the extraction of technical data that proved invaluable to early German tank design.

An earlier heavy tank, the M6 had been standardized in February 1942, but proved to be a failure.

The tank proved to be better than the M60: it was considerably faster, both in all-out speed and, more importantly, with about three times the acceleration.

It proved itself against Allied armor on all fronts, earning the nickname " tank terror ," a direct translation of the word Panzerschreck.

The use of SU-76 tank destroyers together with SU-122 proved unsuccessful.

Although not designed for the role, the SU-152 proved to be a cheap, widely produced and effective heavy tank killer, second only to the SU-100 as an antitank vehicle, as well as highly successful at its original role against infantry and fortifications.

However, it proved less reliable at permanently destroying the Elefant heavy tank destroyer, which was impervious to any other Russian gun and lacked a turret, making it more resistant to non-penetrating HE blast.

By the same measure, although the US was not hampered by industrial restrictions, the U. S. M3 light tank proved to be an effective armored vehicle for fighting in jungle environments.

Various additions such as re-cutting the steps and deepening the tank were undertaken, but the flow of water proved to be insufficient for the proposed new function.

The Lockheed Martin X-33 was a prototype made as part of an attempt by NASA to build a SSTO hydrogen-fuelled spaceplane VentureStar that failed when the hydrogen tank design proved to be unconstructable in the planned way.

The lightweight Type 94 proved effective in China as the Chinese National Revolutionary Army consisted of only three tank battalions to oppose them, and those tank battalions only consisted of some British export models and Italian CV-33 tankettes.

The BMD-2's crew is the same as the one in BMD-1 with slight changes like the fact that the commander no longer operates the left bow-mounted 7. 62 mm PKT tank machine gun which was removed because the trials proved that he is too consumed by his primary duties to accurately fire it.

It is recommended that the tank mimic their natural environment, so artificial or natural rock is highly appreciated.

The tank chassis would also be rendered highly radioactive ( temporarily ) preventing its re-use by a fresh crew.

Roof-fed systems are highly vulnerable to contamination by ashfall, as they have a large surface area relative to the storage tank volume.

The Bradley is highly capable in cross-country open terrain, in accordance with one of the main design objectives of keeping pace with the M1 Abrams main battle tank.

In captivity, most adult Python regius snakes should be kept in a minimum of a, long glass tank, as these pythons are ground dwellers and are highly secretive and largely sedentary.

While the car has been highly rated for safety, there was some controversy and lawsuits in the 1990s and 2000s over Ford Crown Victoria ( and its Mercury and Lincoln counterparts ) gas tank leaks after certain types of high speed impacts, specifically when being hit in the rear end at high speeds.

* In World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, a post-apocalyptic horror-survival novel by Max Brooks, an interviewed soldier tells of " flechette-filled anti-infantry canister shots " for the M1A2 Abrams tank which are highly effective against zombies.

* In Red vs Blue, when the character Church is thrown back in time in Episode 50, he tries to prevent certain things from happening, in the process leading to everything becoming the way it was: kicking dirt on a switch hoping it to be replaced, instead it was kept and later got stuck ; giving his captain painkillers to prevent a heart attack, but killing him because the captain is allergic to aspirin ; trying to make the tank not kill him by disabling the friendly-fire protocol, which later proves his death ; telling the tank and robot that they should not leave and build a robot army, thereby giving them the idea to do it ; trying to shoot O ' Malley with the rocket launcher only to shoot Tucker because of the launcher's highly defective targeting system and his inability to aim.

The narrow tracks were highly unsuited to operation in winter conditions, as they resulted in high ground pressures under which the tank sank into the snow.

An inerting system increases the safety of a fuel tank, ball mill, or other sealed or closed-in tank that contains highly flammable material.

Despite Toriyama's complaints about designing the tank, the art style is praised as being highly detailed, imaginative, and of more consistent quality than Toriyama's previous works ( Dragon Ball ).

Prototypes of the original 40-ton design, the Centurion Mark I, had 76 mm of armour in the front glacis, thinner than the then current infantry tank designs such as the Churchill which had 101 mm, but the glacis plate was highly sloped and so the effective thickness of the armour was very high — a design feature shared by other effective designs such as the German Panther tank and Soviet T-34.

His factories mass production in 1918 of the revolutionary and highly effective Renault FT-17 tank, which he had personnally designed with Rodolphe Ernst-Metzmaier, was perhaps Renault's most significant contribution during that period.

There was advanced coordination between infantry, artillery and armour – the latest, highly manoeuvrable Mark V tank was used after it had been demonstrated to Monash and the British commander, General Rawlinson.

One of the most serious nuclear accidents at SGCE occurred on April 6, 1993, when a tank containing a highly radioactive solution exploded.

It soon became highly valued as the only British tank capable of defeating the Panther and Tiger tanks it faced in Normandy at standard combat ranges.

In doing so, the endeavour was taken out of the hands of the highly enthusiastic and devoted amateurs at Lulworth who had initiated it and given to professional tank developers.

This highly conductive arc supports efficient tank circuit oscillations.

Regarded as a powerful psychological weapon, this flame tank proved highly effective at clearing bunkers, trenches and other German fortifications.

This was not a success in battle, and was replaced with a very successful series of increasingly powerful turretless assault guns: the SU-76, SU-122, and the heavy SU-152, which were followed by the ISU-122 and ISU-152 on the new IS heavy tank chassis.

One of the more successful German tank destroyers was actually designed as a self-propelled artillery gun, the Sturmgeschütz III.

In an article addressed to critics of tank warfare, he wrote " until our critics can produce some new and better method of making a successful land attack other than self-massacre, we shall continue to maintain our beliefs that tanks — properly employed, needless to say — are today the best means available for land attack.

Khrone is successful when he imprisons the Baron in a sensory deprivation tank for a prolonged period ; the Baron's memories of his former life return.

While the " Return to Flight " mission STS-114 in 2005 was successful, a similar piece of foam from a different portion of the tank was shed.

The most widely produced, cost effective and successful tanks of World War II ( the Soviet T-34, the American Sherman tank and the German Panzer IV ) were all medium tank designs, and the success of the concept would later lead to the development of the main battle tank ( which sought to incorporate the best aspects of all three tank types ).

It was a development of the British Vickers 6-Ton tank and is widely considered one of the most successful tank designs of the 1930s.

As an infantry-support tank, designed to support infantry in breakthrough operations, the T-28 in general was successful for an early 1930s design.

Another method for inducing transformation, though one that is very rarely successful, involves removing an axolotl in good condition to a shallow tank in a vivarium and slowly reducing the water level so that the axolotl has difficulty submerging.

This project was later renamed XM1, the project that led to the very successful M1 Abrams tank.

The Ferdinand / Elefant may have been the most successful tank destroyer employed during the war in kills per loss, reaching an average ratio of approximately 10: 1.

While commands exist that enable a range of control over the tank, successful designs tend to be automated.

The poor performance of the Churchill nearly caused production to be ceased in favour of the upcoming Cromwell tank ; it was saved by the successful use of the Mk III at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942.

It was a successful tank design, with upgrades, for many decades.

He introduced a number of extremely successful and long-lived designs, notably the A1 class 0-6-0 and D1 class 0-4-2 tank engines and the B1 class 0-4-2 express passenger locomotives.

He also introduced 8-wheeled designs in the form of 4-4-0 express locomotives and a very successful series of 0-6-2 tank engines with radial axles.

: The successful but limited use of the new M26 Pershing tank at the end of WWII, led the U. S. forces to believe they had the basis for a successful tank design.