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Revision as of 05:20, 21 February 2011
Tanks are Armored Fighting Vehicles characterized by thick armor and heavy weapons. They are designed as mobile weapon platforms, so they have no space to carry troops other than their required crews. A typical crew consists of a driver, one or two gun crew, and a commander.
Modern tanks are tracked vehicles used primarily for line-of-sight combat, armed with cannons and machine guns. The first tanks were built during the Great War by the British as a means of overcoming German trench lines, but proper doctrine for using tanks would not develop until World War II. Several subclasses of tanks have been employed including light tanks, amphibious tanks and main battle tanks. Several defunct classes have been used but are no longer in service, including Tankettes, Cruiser Tanks, Infantry Tanks and Heavy Tanks.
Tanks got their name from a ploy to avoid German intelligence discovering their first deployment; the British described them as "mobile water tanks" when shipping them to the front.
List of Real Life Tanks
- British Mark V tank (United Kingdom)
- T-34 (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
- Panzer-V Panther (Nazi Germany)
- Leopard-II (Federal Republic of Germany)
- Type 99 (People's Republic of China)
- M1 Abrams (United States of America)