Tanks have been utilized on the island of Cuba both within the military and within several conflicts, with their usage and origin after World War II; the...
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including some of the CIA's remaining B-26s. In early 1961, Cuba's army possessed Soviet-designed T-34-85 medium tanks, IS-2 heavy tanks, SU-100 tank destroyers...
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Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets...
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of the 17 pdr anti-tank gun firing the same 76.2 mm (3") projectiles, albeit with a lighter charge, and was effective against late-war German tanks,...
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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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dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which saw former president and military...
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in all nine episodes; Harrington appeared in four, Cuban in three, and Foxworthy in two. Shark Tank's third season premiered in January 2012. From the third...
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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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happening. Under the command of Efigenio Ameijeiras, Cuba deployed twenty-two T-34 tanks, eighteen 120-mm mortars, a battery of 57-mm recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft...
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"sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cuban was involved at a young age in ventures ranging from...
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tanks lost most of them within weeks. The combat statistics for 1941 show that the Soviets lost an average of over seven tanks for every German tank lost...
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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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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис,...
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Balance. 118. Routledge. "Cuban Tanks". Cuban Aviation • Rubén Urribarres. Retrieved 24 April 2016. Oryx. "The Oryx Handbook Of Cuban Fighting Vehicles". Oryx...
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estimated that it had 200 T-54/55 and 50 T-60 tanks, plus 400 T-34s, and IS-2 heavy tanks,and a variety of other Soviet equipment, including BRDM-1; 400...
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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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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 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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Olifant Mk.2 can be seen as almost a new tank. The British Centurion tanks were the South African main battle tanks since 1957, but they were sold or relegated...
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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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The Cuban Revolutionary Navy (Spanish: Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria) is the navy of Cuba. The Constitutional Navy of Cuba was the navy of Cuba that...
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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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The island of Cuba was inhabited by various Native American cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival...
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deals with the history of tanks employed by military forces in Czechoslovakia from the interwar period, and the more conventional tanks designed for the Czechoslovak...
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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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"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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Sheridan light tank of the mid-1960s. British tanks in the early years of the war, both infantry tanks and cruiser tanks, were (with the exception of the pre-war...
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The IS tanks (Russian: ИС) were a series of heavy tanks developed as a successor to the KV-series by the Soviet Union during World War II. The IS acronym...
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