armistice. The first tanks since the First World War did not arrive until a few Vickers Mark VI light tanks appeared the year before Canada went to war with...
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This article is a list of notable think tanks based in Canada. This table is partly based on a list of think tanks published by McGill University's Career...
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Valentine tanks for the British; this was followed later with one for 488 complete tanks for Canada. However the Valentine was an infantry tank and Canada required...
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Sherman tanks extensive use around the world after World War II and catalogues foreign post–World War II use and conversions of Sherman tanks and variants...
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Tanks were an important weapons system in World War II. Although tanks in the inter-war years were the subject of widespread research, few were made,...
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tanks manufactured in Ukraine, leftover Soviet tanks in the Ukrainian Ground Forces today as well as designs imported from other countries and tanks captured...
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and fought across northwest Europe until the end of World War II. It was one of the few Canadian tanks that fought without interruption from D-Day to VE...
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in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the...
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spring or summer of 1945, which marked a new era of french tanks in post-war era when French tanks needed to be modernized. Various tank designs were built...
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Leopard 2 (redirect from Leopard 2 tank)
intention to send its tank fleet of old Yugoslav M-84 and Soviet T-72 tanks to Ukraine in exchange for German Leopard 2 tanks and Marder Infantry Fighting...
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northwest Europe until the end of the Second World War in Europe, one of two Canadian tanks that fought from D-Day to VE Day. Holy Roller is on display as a...
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World War. However, the 1st Canadian Tank Battalion was still training in Mark V tanks in the U.K. when the Canadian Tank Corps was finally authorized...
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a list of main battle tanks, and other vehicles serving that role, in active military service with countries of the world. A main battle tank (MBT) is...
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in terms of the quality of their research. Later generations of think tanks have tended to be more ideologically oriented. Modern think tanks began as...
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light tank classes, with medium tanks covering the balance of those between. The British maintained cruiser tanks, focused on speed, and infantry tanks that...
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Grizzly I cruiser (redirect from Grizzly tank)
decided the nascent Canadian armoured divisions would be equipped by tanks produced in Canada. The result was the Ram cruiser tank, based on the chassis...
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Forces Command, the Canadian Joint Operations Command, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force. See Tanks of Canada for additional details...
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more M4 medium tanks, 17,181 (roughly 34% of all M4s produced), than any other Allied nation. The British practice of naming American tanks after American...
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planners organize tanks with the first generation of tanks up to 1950, and four generations of tanks (with the first main battle tank being the third-generation...
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to produce tanks which later made the famous T-34 and other Soviet tanks. Imperial Russia had flirted with some designs such as the Tsar Tank which was...
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infantry tanks. Cruiser tanks were developed after medium tank designs of the 1930s failed to satisfy the Royal Armoured Corps. The cruiser tank concept...
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armament. Tanks also carried supplies and troops. British heavy tanks are distinguished by a rhomboidal shape with a high climbing face of the track,...
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tank army formed of Destroyer tanks, Battle tanks (of Heavy, Medium and Light types), Torpedo tanks (utilising large trench mortars), Engineer tanks,...
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"the tank" because of its resemblance to a steel water tank. The French fielded their first tanks in April 1917 and ultimately produced far more tanks than...
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the war with China, Japan produced a large number of tanks. Although initially the Japanese used tanks to good effect in their campaigns, full-scale armored...
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This article on military tanks deals with the history of tanks employed by various military forces belonging to the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party...
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This article deals with the history and development of tanks employed by the military of Sweden, from the interwar period, and World War II, the Cold War...
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of the museum's World War I tanks the hall tells the story of the men who crewed the first tanks between 1916 and 1918. Featured tanks: Mark I tank,...
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numerous tank designs used in World War II. In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built tanks. German tanks were...
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Leopard 1 (redirect from Leopard C1 tank)
Centurion, Canada acquired 114 Leopard C1 tanks (equivalent to Leopard 1A3 with laser rangefinder) in 1978–79 for its Land Forces. Most of these tanks were...
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