About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Chapters: Tank museums, Tank personnel, Tank tactics, Tank units and formations, Tank warfare by conflict, Tanks by era, Tanks by type, Trial and research tanks, History of the tank, Tanks in the Japanese Army, Tank classification, Gunter Grass, Tank Battalions of the German Army 1956 - 2008, Development of Japanese tanks in World War II, MBT-70, Panzer VIII Maus, Tank warfare in the Chaco War, List of main battle tanks by generation, Cultivator No. 6, Flame tank, Joe Ekins, Tank formations during the Cold War, Hull-down, United States Army Ordnance Museum, Bovington Tank Museum, Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum, Landsverk L-120, Boirault machine, Tank desant, Yad La-Shiryon, Object 279, Dummy tank, Little Willie, Black Eagle, Breton-Pretot machine, Dwight H. Johnson, Frot-Laffly landship, Souain experiment, VT tank, Military museum Le any, Winged tank, Muckleburgh Collection, German Tank Museum, Musee des Blindes, Ford GAA engine, Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, Steam tank, Landships Committee, Kubinka Tank Museum, Skeleton tank, Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, March of the Soviet Tankmen, Tsar Tank, Holt gas electric tank, Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles, Base Borden Military Museum, Steam Wheel Tank, Puckapunyal, Soviet Tankmen's Song, General George Patton Museum of Leadership, Parola Tank Museum, Overloon War Museum, Lauri Heino, Tank graveyard, Chinese firefighting tank. Excerpt: A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility, tactical offensive, and defensive capabilities. Firepower is normally provided by a large-calibre main gun in a rotating turret and secondary machine guns, while heavy armour and all-terrain mobility provide protection for the tank and its crew, allowing it to perform all p...
