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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... The Canon d’Assaut Lorraine was a French tank destroyer and assault gun, designed upon the chassis of the AMX M4 ...
An assault gun (from German: Sturmgeschütz, lit. ' storm gun ', meaning "assault gun") [1] [2] is a type of armored infantry support vehicle and self-propelled artillery, mounting an infantry support gun on a protected self-propelled chassis, [3] intended for providing infantry with heavy direct fire support during engagement, especially against other infantry or fortified positions ...
Sturmgeschütz (abbreviated StuG) meaning "assault gun" was a series of armored fighting vehicles used by both the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS formations during the Second World War (1939–1945). The main StuGs were the StuG III and StuG IV based on the Panzer III and Panzer IV medium tank chassis respectively.
An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armoured chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions. Historically, the custom-built fully armoured assault guns usually mounted the gun or howitzer in a fully enclosed casemate on a tank
It involves the player piloting an experimental tank known as the "BFT" (Battle Force Tank) through various missions. There is a heavy influence on collecting various weapons for the BFT throughout the game. It was developed by Zipper Interactive, a subsidiary of its parent publisher, Electronic Arts, and uses the same game engine as MechWarrior 3.
Figures include tank production and chassis production used for other variants (for example, Panzer III figures include StuG III assault gun production, etc.). Panzer III figures for 1942 and 1943 excludes 700 Panzer III Ausf N models converted from older variants. Germany also produced 44,259 armored half-tracks and 3,607 armored cars during ...
The StuG assault guns were cost-effective compared with the heavier German tanks such as the Tiger I and the Panther, although as anti-tank guns they were best used defensively as the lack of a traversable turret and their generally thin armour was a severe disadvantage in the attack role. As the situation for the German military deteriorated ...
The task to develop a lightweight assault gun for the airborne troops (with either a 57 mm gun or a 76 mm gun) was given to two design bureaus, Astrov (OKB-40) in Mytishchi and Kravtsev in Moscow. Nikolaj Astrov's OKB-40 designed the ASU-76 , based on components of the T-70 light tank and the SU-76 assault gun, and armed with the new 76 mm gun ...