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Tank / Tank

#1 Char B1

The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before World War II . This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations . ( April 2012 ) Break-through tank, Heavy tank Char B1 The Char B1 bis Rhône at the Musée des Blindés at Saumur Type Bre

• ... s with German tanks the Char B1 usually had the better of it, sometimes spectacularly so as when on 16 may a single tank, Eure (commanded by Captain Pierre Billotte ), frontally attacked and destroyed thirt ...
• ... en claimed [ citation needed ] this formed a weak spot in the armour, based on a single incident on 16 may near Stonne where two German 37 mm PAK guns claimed to have knocked out three Char B1s by firing at ...

#2 Monument to Soviet Tank Crews

The Monument to Soviet Tank Crews (Czech: Památník sovětských tankistů ) was a World War II memorial located in Prague . [1] It is also known as the Pink Tank because it was controversially painted pink in 1991, first by installation artist David Černý and a second time by members of parliament in p

• ... lic Against Violence took advantage of their official immunity and painted the tank back to pink on 16 may in protest against Černý's arrest. [5] The national monument status was abolished, Černý was releas ...

#3 M26 Pershing

The M26 Pershing was a heavy tank / medium tank [1] of the United States Army . The tank was named after General of the Armies John J. Pershing , who led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe in World War I . It was used in the last months of World War II during the Invasion of Germany and exte

• ... nches) Production dates Number produced Notes T20 76 mm M1A1 3 HVSS Torqmatic Model 30-30B GAN 16-9/ 16 may 1943 1 First test of new hydraulic torque converter transmission, which proved leaky and prone to o ...

#4 Armoured Autocar

The Armoured Autocar was a Canadian armoured car used as a mobile machine gun nest during the First World War . Armoured car used by Canadian Expeditionary Force This article uses bare URLs , which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot . ( September 2022 ) Armoured Autocar The sole surviving

• ... aged to retain their armoured equipment. An Autocar destroyed on the Western Front SPECIFICATION On 16 may 1915, the units were redesignated 1st and 2nd Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigades, C.E.F. Each cons ...

#5 Tanks of France

French development into tanks began during World War I as an effort to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare , and largely at the initiative of the manufacturers. The Schneider CA1 was the first tank produced by France, and 400 units were built. The French also experimented with various tank desi

• ... a single Char B1 "Eure" was able to destroy thirteen German tanks within a few minutes in Stonne on 16 may 1940, all of them Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks. The 37mm and 20mm guns the Germans used were inef ...

#6 M60 tank

The M60 is an American second-generation main battle tank (MBT). It was officially standardized as the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60 in March 1959. [1] Although developed from the M48 Patton , the M60 tank series was never officially christened as a Patton tank . The US Army considered

• ... prepares to lead a column of vehicles down a road near McGovern Base, in Bosnia and Herzegovina on may 16, 1996, during Operation Joint Endeavor. M60 Panther MDCV (Mine Detection and Clearing Vehicle): M60 ...