A US Marine Corps M88A2 Hercules in 2014, lifting an M1 Abrams engine with its crane.. An armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) is typically a powerful tank or armoured personnel carrier (APC) chassis modified for use during combat for military vehicle recovery (towing) or repair of battle-damaged, stuck, and/or inoperable armoured fighting vehicles, such as tanks and armoured personnel carriers.
We take a look at the development history and features of an engine that powered the M4 Sherman and other vehicles. Starting life before World War II as a 27-litre V12 designed for aviation purposes, the Ford GAA would eventually becoming a world-class V8 for both military and civilian purposes.
Tanks were an integral part to the war strategy of both sides during World War II. Therefore, it was important to the Germans that they be equipped with a destroyer that could defeat any the Allies used in the field. The decision was made to mount a 12.8 cm Pak 44 main gun onto a tank shell. These anti-tank weapons fired 62-pound shells, which
The German Heavy Gustav Was the Largest Gun Ever Built. Improvements to tanks, cars and planes during World War II marked the twilight of the war train. The great trains of the First World War
The tank’s modern reputation as a fast, hard-hitting, deadly war chariot is largely due to the German Army’s use of the tank in the early years of World War II.
The war on the Eastern Front, known to Russians as the "Great Patriotic War", was the scene of the largest military confrontation in history. Over the course of four years, more than 400 Red Army
The SU-76M was the second most produced Soviet AFV of World War II, after the T-34 medium tank. Developed under the leadership of chief designer S.A. Ginzburg (1900–1943). This infantry support SPG was based on the lengthened T-70 light tank chassis and armed with the ZIS-3 76-mm divisional field gun.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary of German Battle Tanks, Armoured Cars, Self-Propelled Guns and Semi-Track. Cassell. ISBN 978-1854095183. Taki's Imperial Japanese Army Page - Akira Takizawa; Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939–45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-8460-3091-8
Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer used by German Panzerjäger (anti-tank units) during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand (after its designer Ferdinand Porsche) using VK 45.01 (P) tank hulls which had been produced for the Tiger I tank before the competing Henschel design had been selected.
For example, markedly inferior German armor decimated the Soviet tank fleet in 1941, while Israeli Super Shermans -- upgraded World War II leftovers -- destroyed modern Russian tanks in 1973.
World War I / World War II 305: 12-inch coast defense mortar M1886, M1890, M1908, and M1912 United States: World War I / World War II 370: Mortier de 370 modèle 1914 Filloux France: World War I / World War II 420: 2B1 Oka Soviet Union: Cold War 540: Karl-Gerät 041 Nazi Germany: World War II 600: Karl-Gerät 040 Nazi Germany: World War II
In 2011, 45,000 people—the largest evacuation in Germany since World War II—were forced to leave their homes when a drought revealed a similar device lying on the bed of the Rhine in the
A MASS grave has been uncovered 75 years after the Battle of Stalingrad, arguably the bloodiest and deadliest episode of World War Two. The grave contains almost 2,000 German soldiers and was disco…
The Maus, or Mouse tank, weighed 180 tons. Hitler first saw a full-scale wooden model of this monster armored fighting vehicle at the Führer Headquarters in East Prussia in May 1943. He was ecstatic over the model—a “wunderwaffe” in the true sense of the word. The Maus could only be built in late 1944.
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