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Hunter AFV of the Singapore Army firing an Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) during a live-firing exercise. The Hunter AFV has a remotely controlled Samson Mk II turret from Rafael armed with a 30 mm Mk44 Bushmaster II cannon, with a magazine for 200 30x173mm rounds, [ 15 ] two SPIKE anti-tank guided missiles , a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun , and ...
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 Tank Destroyer Command eventually numbered over 100,000 men and 80 battalions each equipped with 36 self-propelled tank destroyers or towed guns. The first US tank destroyer was a 75 mm gun on a half-track chassis M10 tank destroyer. Only a few shots were expected to be fired from any firing position. Strong reconnaissance elements were ...
Aero 9B nose turret from the Neptune at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Florida, 2007.Mostly the one foot longer Aero 9C turret was installed. Before the P-3 Orion arrived in the mid-1960s, the Neptune was the primary U.S. land-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft, intended to be operated as the hunter of a '"Hunter-Killer" group, with destroyers employed as killers.
This is a list of Japanese Army Military Engineer Vehicles during World War II.Included are diverse types of armored lumberjacks, mine clearing vehicles, engineering vehicles, construction and repair vehicles, recovery cranes and other materiel used by Imperial Japanese Army engineer units during World War II.
Raketenjagdpanzer (missile armed tank hunter) is the designation of a range of German dedicated tank destroyers equipped with anti-tank guided missiles. Four different Raketenjagdpanzer have been used so far: Raketenjagdpanzer 1; Raketenjagdpanzer 2; Raketenjagdpanzer 3 Jaguar 1; Raketenjagdpanzer 4 Jaguar 2
Leichttraktor, pre-war light tank, four built; Neubaufahrzeug, pre-war heavy tank design, five built; Panther II, development of the Panzerkampfwagen V "Panther". A single chassis was built; Panzerkampfwagen VII "Löwe", a super-heavy tank project that never reached prototype stage; Panzerkampfwagen VIII "Maus", a super-heavy tank. Two ...
The Jagdpanzer designs followed on from the more lightly armored Panzerjäger ("tank hunter") designs, which took an anti-tank gun and mounted it on top of a tank chassis with supplementary armor fitted around the gun crew. However, the armor typically had an open rear and top, almost never providing the crew with full protection from the elements.