This is a list of VK-designated tanks made by Germany from 1930s until 1945. Versuchskonstruktion (abbreviated to VK or Vs.Kfz.) from Versuchs Kraftfahrzeug...
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medium tanks to succeed the Panzer III, IV, and the planned VK 20 series tanks. These were requested in response to the Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks, with...
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Uralvagonzavod (category Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange)
Works, to form the Stalin Ural Tank Factory No. 183. During the Second World War it became the largest producer of tanks in the world, including the T-34...
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extensive variety of combat vehicles during World War II. The VK.31 Leichttraktor ("Light tractor") was an experimental German light fighting tank developed in...
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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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Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (MAN) were given the task of designing a new 30- to 35-tonne tank, designated VK 30.02, by April 1942. The "VK 30.02(DB)" design resembled the T-34...
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deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German...
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before the war) Renault FT (most of delivered 36 tanks, 3 tanks captured by Japanese in 1931) M4 Sherman (35 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater...
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Panzer I Ausf. C (category World War II tanks of Germany)
prototype name VK 6.01, was a German light tank from the Second World War. Although the Panzer I Ausf. C was formally designated as a modification of the Panzer...
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V. K. Singh (redirect from General VK Singh)
April 2015. "PM Modi allocates portfolios. Full list of new ministers", Live Mint, 31 May 2019 "Minister VK Singh's Wife Says She Was Secretly Taped, Is...
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incomplete list of gasoline engines designed by Maybach AG, manufactured by Maybach and other firms under licence, and fitted in various German tanks (German:...
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M26 Pershing (redirect from Pershing tank)
Bataillon de Tanks Lourds/Bataljon Zware Tanks. However, in the spring of 1953, M26s for three months equipped the 1st Heavy Tank Battalion of the 1st Infantry...
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variant Tanks of comparable role, performance and era German VK 30.01 (H) – prototype for the Tiger I British Excelsior – prototype heavy tank, two built...
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completion of state tests in early 1949 the aircraft was ordered into large scale production on 14 May 1949, with the Klimov VK-1, an improved version of the...
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exported as the F-5 and was originally designated Dongfeng-101 (East Wind-101) and also Type 56 before being designated J-5 in 1964. The MiG-17 was license-built...
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retained in production for further work with the Klimov VK-107 engine. The new fighter, designated the Yak-3, entered service in 1944, later than the Yak-9...
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copy of the Rolls-Royce Nene engine, the Klimov VK-1, were heavier with equal thrust. Later MiG-17s would be the first Soviet fighter application of an...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (category Abandoned military aircraft projects of the Soviet Union)
jet) motorjet powered by the Klimov VK-107 V12 engine. While quite successful when it worked, with a maximum speed of 820 km/h (510 mph) being reached during...
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Wagner Group (redirect from ChVK Wagner)
romanized: ChVK «Vagner»), is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's...
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overhaul of T-72 tanks as it seeks to reduce reliance on Russia". BusinessLine. Retrieved 13 February 2024. "Indian Army issues RFI to restore T-72 tanks". www...
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VK-106 Klimov VK-107 Klimov VK-108 Klimov VK-109 Klimov M-120 Klimov RD-33 Klimov RD-45 Klimov RD-500 Klimov VK-1 Klimov VK-2 Klimov VK-3 Klimov VK-5...
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Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 (category World War II aircraft of Finland)
the LaGG-3 and keep it in production Lavochkin fitted a Klimov VK-107 engine capable of 970 kW (1,300 hp) at 5,000 m (16,400 ft) to a LaGG-3. All 33 test...
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Omaha Beach (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
landings were to be supported by the tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion; two companies swimming ashore in amphibious DD tanks and the remaining company landing...
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(160 US gal; 130 imp gal) drop-tanks Fuel capacity: 1,420 L (380 US gal; 310 imp gal) internal Powerplant: 1 × Klimov VK-1 centrifugal-flow turbojet, 26...
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105 mm FSAPDS rounds for the Army's Vijayanta and T-55 tanks. Significant amounts of 125 mm anti-tank rounds manufactured by the Ordnance Factory Board were...
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This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II. Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some...
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was authorised on 20 April 1951 to convert one of the prototype MiG-17s, replacing the single Klimov VK-1 engine with two 19.60 kN (4,410 lbf) AM-5s (later...
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