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  • Thumbnail for Molotov cocktail
    Molotov cocktail (redirect from Petrol bomb)
    corner that is wetted with petrol. Wait for your tank. When near enough, your pal [or comrade-in-arms] lights the petrol soaked corner of the blanket...
    56 KB (5,577 words) - 06:16, 28 October 2024
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    Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (abbreviated Pz.Kpfw. V) with ordnance inventory designation: Sd.Kfz. 171, is a German medium tank of World...
    126 KB (16,384 words) - 18:56, 29 October 2024
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    about a quarter of wartime British tank production. The variants included riveted and welded construction, petrol and diesel engines and increases in...
    40 KB (4,823 words) - 13:12, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elefant
    Hornisse (later known as Nashorn) tank destroyer and was also used in the Tiger II heavy tank, built at the same time. The petrol–electric transmission made...
    22 KB (2,740 words) - 20:40, 17 October 2024
  • modern British tanks confirmed that Molotov and SIP grenades caused the occupants of the tanks "no inconvenience whatsoever". The Home Guard hid caches of...
    7 KB (720 words) - 16:03, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for British heavy tanks of the First World War
    were partially involved). The engine, a 330 hp (250 kW) Ricardo petrol for British tanks and a 300 hp (220 kW) Liberty V12 for US ones to drive its 37 long...
    59 KB (7,305 words) - 09:31, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cromwell tank
    The Cromwell tank, officially Tank, Cruiser, Mk VIII, Cromwell (A27M), was one of the series of cruiser tanks fielded by Britain in the Second World War...
    76 KB (9,632 words) - 07:28, 18 November 2024
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    machine gun ammunition for the tank commander's machine gun as well as the two coaxial machine guns. They were equipped with petrol engines, which necessitated...
    107 KB (11,891 words) - 15:28, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Churchill tank
    The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was a British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal...
    72 KB (8,774 words) - 17:10, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lend-Lease Sherman tanks
    environment than petrol-engined versions. Sherman Gun Tractor – British field conversion in Italy by removing turrets from M4A2 Sherman III tanks to tow 17 pdr...
    40 KB (4,777 words) - 11:26, 24 October 2024
  • confirmed the incident. On 12 July 2012, a tank truck in Okobie, Nigeria, fell into a ditch, spilled its petrol contents, and subsequently exploded, killing...
    102 KB (10,281 words) - 05:41, 28 October 2024
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    T-34 (redirect from T-34 Tank)
    Army's T-26 and BT tanks used petrol engines which, while common in tank designs of the time, often burst into flames when hit by IJA tank-killer teams using...
    144 KB (17,148 words) - 20:02, 17 November 2024
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    capability in an armoured housing. The original design of the Chieftain tank called for a petrol "V8 Rolls Royce engine". With a two year delay in the development...
    57 KB (7,255 words) - 13:59, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mk VII Tetrarch light tank
    The light tank Mk VII (A17), also known as the Tetrarch, was a British light tank produced by Vickers-Armstrongs in the late 1930s and used during the...
    44 KB (6,028 words) - 12:17, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Kursk
    Battle of Kursk (category Tank battles involving Germany)
    the massed armour of five tank brigades from the Soviet 18th and 29th Tank Corps of the 5th Guards Tank Army. The Soviet tanks advanced down the corridor...
    167 KB (20,279 words) - 15:29, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for FV101 Scorpion
    The FV101 Scorpion is a British armoured reconnaissance vehicle and light tank. It was the lead vehicle and the fire support type in the Combat Vehicle...
    30 KB (3,065 words) - 04:23, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger
    The Tank, Cruiser, Challenger (A30) was a British tank of World War II. It mounted the QF 17-pounder anti-tank gun on a chassis derived from the Cromwell...
    21 KB (2,711 words) - 14:56, 20 July 2024
  • approaching tank began to push its way over the obstruction, as Dean wrote: We were prepared for this ... I had some lorry petrol tanks punctured with...
    126 KB (16,417 words) - 22:42, 23 September 2023
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    Royal Irish Hussars, destroyed an Iraqi T-55 tank at a range of 3600 metres, followed soon after by a petrol tanker at a range of 4700 metres using L23A1...
    28 KB (2,886 words) - 05:49, 16 November 2024
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    M3 Lee (redirect from Grant tank)
    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...
    55 KB (7,078 words) - 20:26, 6 November 2024
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