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 M7 medium tank, initially T7 light tank, was an American tank, originally conceived as an up-gunned replacement for the M3/M5 light tank ("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 medium tank most widely used 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 different forms, one for US...
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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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M26 Pershing (redirect from Pershing tank)
The M26 Pershing is a heavy tank, later designated as a medium tank, formerly used by the United States Army. It was used in the last months of World...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 "14-tonner"...
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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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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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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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The Medium Tank M1922 was an inter-war period medium tank built in the United States. It was largely a variant of the Medium Tank M1921, with some changes...
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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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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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Medium Mk II brought to the forefront the fully rotating turret on top and dual-use 3-pounder gun (that could fire both high-explosive and anti-tank shells)...
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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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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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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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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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T-34 medium tank, introduced in 1940, which would replace all of the Soviet fast tanks, infantry tanks, and light tanks in service. The BT tanks were...
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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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