The T2 medium tank was an American design that replaced three prototype medium tank designs started in the 1920s for conducted by the United States Army...
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R-975 radial engine) was redesignated as the M2 Medium Tank in June 1939. The T1 light tank and T2 medium tank were prototypes that were designed in the 1920s...
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The medium tank M7, initially light tank T7, was an American tank, originally conceived as an up-gunned replacement for the light tank M3/M5 ("Stuart")...
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A medium tank is a classification of tanks, particularly prevalent during World War II, which represented a compromise between the mobility oriented light...
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M4 Sherman (redirect from M4 Medium Tank)
The M4 Sherman, officially medium tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. The M4 Sherman...
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M3 Lee (redirect from Medium Tank M3)
The M3 Lee, officially Medium Tank, M3, was an American medium tank used during World War II. The turret was produced in two forms, one for US needs and...
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Browning machine guns. It was originally developed from the prototype T2 light tank built by the Rock Island Arsenal, which had a Vickers-type leaf spring...
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approved in 1926. One was a 15-ton tank (medium tank T2) and the other a development of the M1921 which became the medium tank T1. "M1921 Military Factory"...
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The T69 was a prototype American medium tank with an oscillating turret mounting a 90mm cannon with an eight-round drum autoloader. It held a crew of...
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The M2 medium tank, officially Medium Tank, M2, was a United States Army medium tank that was first produced in 1939 by the Rock Island Arsenal, just...
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The T95 was an American prototype medium tank developed from 1955 to 1959. These tanks used many advanced or unusual features, such as siliceous-cored...
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M26 Pershing (redirect from Pershing tank)
The M26 Pershing is a heavy tank/medium tank formerly used by the United States Army. It was used in the last months of World War II during the Invasion...
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M47 Patton (redirect from M47 Patton tank)
The M47 Patton was an American Medium tank, a development of the M46 Patton mounting an updated turret, and was in turn further developed as the M48 Patton...
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Soviet multi-turreted medium tank. The prototype was completed in 1931, and production began in late 1932. It was an infantry support tank intended to break...
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Destroyer tanks, Battle tanks (of Heavy, Medium and Light types), Torpedo tanks (utilising large trench mortars), Engineer tanks, Supply tanks and Ambulance...
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design was the L6/40, a very small light tank with a 20 mm Breda cannon and rivetted construction. A medium tank, based on the Vickers Six-Tonner, was the...
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ideogram "Chi" meant a medium tank, "Te" a tankette, "Ke" a light tank, "Ho" (artillery) a self-propelled gun, "Ka" an amphibious tank. There was a second...
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M1 combat car (redirect from M1 light tank)
tanks inspired by the British Vickers 6-ton tank. At the same time, they built a light tank similar to the T2 for the cavalry – the T5 combat car. The only...
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The A7 Medium Tank , (or Medium Tank A7), was a British experimental medium tank design of the period between the two World Wars. The A7, known as the...
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M3 Stuart (redirect from M5 light tank)
gun. M3 with T2 light mine exploder Developed in 1942, was rejected. M3/M3A1 with Ronson flamethrower replacing the main gun. 24 tanks were converted...
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concept, by replacing heavy tanks with mobile medium tanks. In the late 1960s, the independent tank battalions with heavy tanks were re-equipped with the...
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The T2 tanker, or T2, was a class of oil tanker constructed and produced in large numbers in the United States during World War II. Only the T3 tankers...
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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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Grosstraktor (redirect from Grosstraktor (prototype medium tank))
Grosstraktor (German: "large tractor") was the codename given to six prototype medium tanks built (two each) by Rheinmetall-Borsig, Krupp, and Daimler-Benz, for...
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tank, in a package with the weight of a medium tank. The first designated MBT was the British Chieftain tank, which during its development in the 1950s...
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M46 Patton (category Medium tanks of the Cold War)
Patton is an American medium tank designed to replace the M26 Pershing and M4 Sherman. It was one of the U.S Army's principal medium tanks of the early Cold...
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medium tanks. The failure of this multi-turreted tank guided the switch to the more successful, single-turret T-34 medium tank. The T-34 was a medium...
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M48 Patton (redirect from M48 Patton tank)
Locomotive Company, from 1952 to 1961. The M48 Patton was the first U.S. medium gun tank with a four-man crew, featuring a centerline driver's compartment and...
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the summer of 1942, when enough US medium tanks had been received, the British usually kept Stuarts out of tank-to-tank combat. M3s, M3A3s, and M5s continued...
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armored medium tanks. When the war began in June 1950, the four American infantry divisions on occupation duty in Japan had no medium tanks at all, having...
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