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The M728 vehicle is used for breaching, obstacle removal, and pioneering operations. Although the M728 consists of a tank hull and a short-barreled turret, it is not a tank and should not be routinely used against enemy tanks. It is an excellent heavy assault support vehicle when used as part of a combined engineer-infantry team.
The EBG combat engineering vehicle, based on the AMX 30 tank, is used by the engineers of the French Army. BAT-M engineering vehicle of Russia and the former Soviet Union. A military engineering vehicle is a vehicle built for construction work or for the transportation of combat engineers on the battlefield.
V-2-450AV-S3: V-2 modified for oil drilling equipment, it produced 450 hp (340 kW). V-4: Essentially a V-2 engine cut in half to form an inline six engine. Used in the T-50 light tank, it produced 300 hp (220 kW). V-11: Used in the IS-3; It produced 520 hp (390 kW). Developed into the V-44, used in the T-44. V-12: Used in the IS-4. Fitted with ...
The Tank Mark VIII (or "Liberty", after its engine) was an Anglo-American tank design of the First World War, a collaborative effort to equip France, the U.K., and the U.S. with a single heavy tank design built in France for an offensive in 1919. Testing of the design was not finished until after the war, and it was decided to build 100 ...
In 1976, the army selected Chrysler's design for what would become the Abrams tank, and designated the Lima plant, operated by Chrysler, to initially build the tank. The army pressured Chrysler, in financial difficulty, to form a subsidiary, Chrysler Defense, to hold and protect the tank contract from potential bankruptcy proceedings.
Designing of the wheel-caterpillar A-20 tank with increased, in comparison with the BT tank, quantity of the leading wheels skating rinks and with the case and a tower of an original form was one of important developments of that period. During the course of performance this work for the purpose of check of a possibility of simplification of a ...
The AEV 3 Kodiak is a Leopard 2 main battle tank (MBT) based armoured engineering vehicle that can be used for a wide variety of battlefield engineering, infrastructure and support roles. These roles can include, but would not be limited to, minefield breaching , route denial, dozing and digging tasks, and the erection or demolition of obstacles .
The German heavy tank battalions destroyed a total of 8,100 enemy tanks for the loss of 1,482 of their own, an overall kill/loss ratio of 5.47 though individual unit ratios ranged from 1.28 to 13. The German losses also include non-combat tank write-offs. [1] Tiger I in France.