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Parent topics
- Armored fighting vehicle [r]: A military vehicle that is both protected against blast and fragments, and either has offensive weapons or directly supports combat by vehicles with offensive weapons [e]
- Cavalry [r]: Military units that emphasize speed and mobility, and are used for scouting, harassment, and raiding; the original cavalry were on horses while modern variants use fast ground vehicles or helicopters [e]
- Combined arms warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Anti-tank weapon [r]: A guided or unguided weapon intended to penetrate armored fighting vehicles; may be a cannon-fired projectile, unguided rocket, gravity bomb, cluster submunition or land mine, or other means of disabling or destroying the target [e]
- Anti-tank warfare [r]: The practice of measures, on or adjacent to the battlefield, to damage or destroy armored fighting vehicles including tanks, or to interfere with the ability of those vehicles to move on that battlefield [e]
- Armor (protective) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armor, composite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armor, reactive [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armor, rolled homogeneous [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centurion (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Challenger (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hobart's funnies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M1 Abrams (tank) [r]: Heavily armed and armored but expensive and heavy, main battle tank, designed for the United States Army, and used by the United States Marine Corps and several allies; proven from the Gulf War onwards. [e]
- M4 Sherman (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M48 Patton (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M60 Patton (tank) [r]: A widely used U.S. designed main battle tank (military) tank, replaced by the M1 Abrams (tank), and itself a derivative of the M48 Patton (tank) [e]
- Patton (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Panther (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- T-34 (tank) [r]: Generally considered to be the best overall tank of the Second World War, this medium tank went into production in 1940 until replaced by the T-54 in 1949 [e]
- T-54 (tank) [r]: Replacing the T-34 Soviet tank starting in 1949, this tank and its Soviet and Chinese derivatives remained in production into the 1980s; more were built than of any other family of tanks [e]
- T-62 (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- T-72 (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tank retriever [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tank transporter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tiger (tank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- AGM-114 Hellfire [r]: A U.S. Army guided missile, fired from attack helicopters, unmanned aerial vehiclea and ground platforms against tanks and other armored vehicles, bunkers, "soft" vehicles, and cave targets. [e]
- Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. [e]
- AirLand battle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antitank cluster submunition [r]: Individual weapons, released by a cluster munition, which only threaten armored fighting vehicles and will not be detonated by individuals. They may make immediate attacks, or create a temporary antitank minefield [e]
- Armored car [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armored reconnaissance vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armored personnel carrier [r]: A lightly armed and armored, wheeled or tracked, military vehicle that protects passengers from light weapons and artillery fragments, and delivers them to the battlefield where they fight on foot [e]
- Artillery [r]: Crew-served military devices for propelling payloads over distance [e]
- Attack helicopter [r]: A helicopter equipped with built-in heavy weapons, which has no standard cargo capacity and is used as a "flying tank" in close air support or battlefield air interdiction. [e]
- BGM-71 TOW [r]: A heavy antitank missile, launched from ground or helicopter platforms; all but the recent air-launched version trail a thin wire through which they receive man-in-the-loop guidance commands [e]
- Direct fire [r]: A military term for battlefield weapons fired with a direct line of sight on their target; projectile weapons actually fire in a parabolic trajectory that approximates a straight line for short distances [e]
- Euromissile HOT [r]: European wire-guided anti-tank missile for vehicles and helicopters, similar to the U.S. BGM-71 TOW [e]
- Explosively formed projectile [r]: A technique of using controlled explosives to direct a blast wave, or materials near it, into a desired shape [e]
- Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. [e]
- Heavy Equipment Transporter System [r]: The combination of a 8x8 M1070 tractor and a 70-ton semi-trailer, M1000, principally for road transportation of the M1 Abrams tank [e]
- Heinz Guderian [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infantry fighting vehicle [r]: A vehicle intended to carry infantry onto a battlefield, sometimes allowing them to fight from inside and always to dismount and fight on foot; it accompanies dismounts and provides heavier fire support than they can carry [e]
- land mine [r]: A destructive device used in land warfare, which waits passively for a target and then detonates due to some action or physical property of the target [e]
- George S. Patton, Jr. [r]: (1885 - 1945) Controversial American general in World War II, famed for his successes in armored warfare against the Germans in 1944-45. [e]
