langs: 25 октября [ru] / october 25 [en] / 25. oktober [de] / 25 octobre [fr] / 25 ottobre [it] / 25 de octubre [es]

days: october 22 / october 23 / october 24 / october 25 / october 26 / october 27 / october 28

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Tank / Tank

#1 Assault Amphibious Vehicle

The Assault Amphibious Vehicle [2] [3] ( AAV )—official designation AAVP-7A1 (formerly known as Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel-7 abbr. LVTP-7 )—is a fully tracked amphibious landing vehicle manufactured by U.S. Combat Systems (previously by United Defense , a former division of FMC Corporation

• ... olved in hostilities, several vehicles sustained minor damage from shrapnel and small arms fire. On october 25, 1983 U.S. Marine LVTP-7s conducted a highly successful amphibious landing on the island of Grenada ...

#2 Alvis Saracen

The FV603 Saracen is a six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier designed and produced by Alvis since 1952. It has been used by a variety of operators around the world, and is still in use in secondary roles in some countries. [ citation needed ] The Saracen became a recognisable vehicle as a result of

• ... nst the sale of heritage-listed Fort Largs by the state government of South Australia took place on 25 october 2014. The protest, organised by the National Trust of SA, [19] featured an Alvis Saracen and other ...

#3 M22 Locust

The M22 Locust , officially Light Tank (Airborne), M22 , was an American-designed airborne light tank which was produced during World War II . The Locust began development in 1941 after the British War Office requested that the American government design a purpose-built airborne light tank which cou

• ... to Britain to illustrate that the tank could fit inside a Hamilcar and be landed, [29] and then on october 25 the Light Tank Squadron received a shipment of seventeen Locusts. During November the new tanks were ...

#4 Namer

Namer ( Hebrew : נמ"ר , pronounced   [naˈmeʁ] ), means " leopard " and also a syllabic abbreviation of " Na gmash" (APC) and " Mer kava", is an Israeli armoured personnel carrier based on a Merkava Mark IV tank chassis. [5] Namer was developed by and is being assembled by the Israeli Ordnance Corps

• ... on LeZion . To speed up the production of the Namers (which have been taking place domestically) on 25 october 2010, it was announced that General Dynamics Land Systems had been chosen to negotiate a contract t ...

#5 Zulfiqar (tank)

Zulfiqar (ذوالفقار) is an Iranian main battle tank , conceived by Brigadier General Mir-Younes Masoumzadeh, deputy ground force commander for research and self-sufficiency of the armed forces. It is named after Zulfiqar , the legendary sword of Ali the fourth Caliph and the first Shiite Imam . [3] I

• ... three personnel. The automatic loader is believed to be the same one from the T-72 tank. [8] [9] On 25 october 2016, Iran had successfully tested an active protection system on the Zulfiqar, based on pulse-dopp ...

#6 M48 Patton

The M48 Patton is an American first-generation main battle tank (MBT) introduced in February 1952, being designated as the 90mm Gun Tank: M48 . It was designed as a replacement for the M26 Pershing , M4 Sherman , M46 and M47 Patton tanks, and was the main battle tank of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine

• ... idered an even match for its Soviet counterpart, the T-54 and fielded to combat units in Europe. On 25 october 1954, the Army decided to amend its designation of the M48 tank. Thereafter, the tanks with the ori ...

#7 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

• ... ault Unit equipped with Amphibious Assault Vehicles and four M60A1 tanks landed at Grand Mal Bay on october 25 and relieved the Navy SEALs the following morning, allowing Governor Scoon , his wife, and nine aide ...

#8 Leopard 2

The Leopard 2 is a 3rd generation main battle tank originally developed by Krauss-Maffei in the 1970s for the West German army . The tank first entered service in 1979 and succeeded the earlier Leopard 1 as the main battle tank of the German Army . It is armed with a 120   mm smoothbore cannon, and

• ... for 1981 and 300 tanks each following year. [34] The first series-production tank was delivered on 25 october 1979. By 1982, all of the first batch of 380 Leopard 2 tanks had been completed. 209 were built by ...