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ARTICLES RELATED TO History of the tank - World War II | | | |  History of the tank - World War II: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - World War IIDuring World War II, the tank reached new heights of capability and sophistication. The early tanks of Nazi Germany were technologically inferior to many of their opponents' tanks in the areas of armour and firepower. It was in their tactical employment that German tanks dominated all rivals early in the war. German doctrine stressed the use of combined-arms involving mobile infantry and air support, and, after its surprising success during the execution of Fall Gelb, the tactic of the Blitzkrieg (lightning warfare). This doctrine required t ...
See also:History of the tank, History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare, History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank, History of the tank - Between the wars, History of the tank - World War II, History of the tank - Nazi Germany, History of the tank - United Kingdom, History of the tank - Soviet Union, History of the tank - The United States, History of the tank - The Cold War, History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century, History of the tank - Media Read more here: » History of the tank: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - World War II |
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| | | | History of the tank - World War II: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - The Cold War In the Cold War, the two opposing forces in Europe were the Warsaw Pact countries on the one side, and the NATO countries on the other side. The Warsaw Pact was seen by the West as having an aggressive force outnumbering the NATO forces.
Soviet domination of the Warsaw Pact led to effective standardization on a few tank designs. In comparison, NATO adopted a defensive posture. The major contributing nations, France, Germany, the USA, and the UK deve ...
See also:History of the tank, History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare, History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank, History of the tank - Between the wars, History of the tank - World War II, History of the tank - Nazi Germany, History of the tank - United Kingdom, History of the tank - Soviet Union, History of the tank - The United States, History of the tank - The Cold War, History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century, History of the tank - Media Read more here: » History of the tank: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - The Cold War |
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| | | | History of the tank - World War II: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century The ongoing development of the tank is covered in more detail in the Tank research and development article.
With the end of the Cold War in 1991, questions once again started sprouting concerning the relevance of the traditional tank. Over the years, many nations cut back the number of their tanks or replaced most of them with lightweight armoured fighting vehicles with only minimal armour protection.
This period also brought an end to the superpower blocs, and the military industries of Russia and Ukraine are now vying to sell ...
See also:History of the tank, History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare, History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank, History of the tank - Between the wars, History of the tank - World War II, History of the tank - Nazi Germany, History of the tank - United Kingdom, History of the tank - Soviet Union, History of the tank - The United States, History of the tank - The Cold War, History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century, History of the tank - Media Read more here: » History of the tank: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century |
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| | | | History of the tank - World War II: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - Between the wars Between the two world wars, with the tank concept now established, several nations designed and built tanks. Britain and France were the intellectual leaders while other armies generally followed and adopted their designs.
Britain continued its technical dominance of tank design from 1915 through at least the early 1930s. British designs, particularly those from the Vickers firm, formed the basis for many of the most common tanks of the 1930s and early WW2. For example, the Vickers Six Ton Tank was the basis for the Polish 7TP, the So ...
See also:History of the tank, History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare, History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank, History of the tank - Between the wars, History of the tank - World War II, History of the tank - Nazi Germany, History of the tank - United Kingdom, History of the tank - Soviet Union, History of the tank - The United States, History of the tank - The Cold War, History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century, History of the tank - Media Read more here: » History of the tank: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - Between the wars |
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| | | | History of the tank - World War II: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank The tank was developed by the British in World War I as a solution to the stalemate trench warfare had brought to the western front. The first prototype of the Mark I tank was tested for the British Army on September 6, 1915. Although initially termed "land ships" by The Admiralty, to preserve secrecy the initial vehicles were referred to as "water-carriers" which was then shortened to "tanks".
While the British took the lead in tank development, the French were not far behind and fielded their first tanks in 1917. The Germans on the ...
See also:History of the tank, History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare, History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank, History of the tank - Between the wars, History of the tank - World War II, History of the tank - Nazi Germany, History of the tank - United Kingdom, History of the tank - Soviet Union, History of the tank - The United States, History of the tank - The Cold War, History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century, History of the tank - Media Read more here: » History of the tank: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank |
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| | | | History of the tank - World War II: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare The problem of advancing to attack while under fire is as old as warfare itself. The idea of using some kind of movingconstruction for protection seems to be almost as old. The Assyrians had moveable barriers for archers. The Roman Empire had shielded towers on wheels armed with catapults. The Poles and Czechs had wheeled metal-plated war-wagons in the Middle Ages. Leonardo da Vinci designed a man-powered fighting vehicle with wheels.
Most of these older ideas focused on sieges, where the more common tactics of manoeuvre and formation ...
See also:History of the tank, History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare, History of the tank - World War I: dawn of the tank, History of the tank - Between the wars, History of the tank - World War II, History of the tank - Nazi Germany, History of the tank - United Kingdom, History of the tank - Soviet Union, History of the tank - The United States, History of the tank - The Cold War, History of the tank - Entering the twenty-first century, History of the tank - Media Read more here: » History of the tank: Encyclopedia II - History of the tank - Early vehicles in warfare |
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