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    Tanks are armored fighting vehicles intended for front-line combat that balance firepower from large guns, strong armor protection, and mobility from tracks. Their main armament is usually a large caliber tank gun mounted in a rotating turret, along with supplemental machine guns or missiles. Tanks have heavy armor that protects the crew, ammunition, fuel, and engines, and use tracks instead of wheels to navigate rugged terrain. Their firepower and protection enable tanks to engage in offensive and defensive combat roles while maintaining battlefield mobility.

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    Tanks are armored fighting vehicles intended for front-line combat that balance firepower from large guns, strong armor protection, and mobility from tracks. Their main armament is usually a large caliber tank gun mounted in a rotating turret, along with supplemental machine guns or missiles. Tanks have heavy armor that protects the crew, ammunition, fuel, and engines, and use tracks instead of wheels to navigate rugged terrain. Their firepower and protection enable tanks to engage in offensive and defensive combat roles while maintaining battlefield mobility.

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    Tanks are armored fighting vehicles intended for front-line combat that balance firepower from large guns, strong armor protection, and mobility from tracks. Their main armament is usually a large caliber tank gun mounted in a rotating turret, along with supplemental machine guns or missiles. Tanks have heavy armor that protects the crew, ammunition, fuel, and engines, and use tracks instead of wheels to navigate rugged terrain. Their firepower and protection enable tanks to engage in offensive and defensive combat roles while maintaining battlefield mobility.

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    1/1/24, 9:55 AM Tank - Wikipedia

    Tank

    A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a


    primary offensive weapon in front-line ground
    combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy
    firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield
    mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine;
    usually their main armament is mounted in a turret.
    They are a mainstay of modern 20th and 21st
    century ground forces and a key part of combined
    arms combat.

    Modern tanks are versatile mobile land weapons The first tank to engage in battle, the British Mark
    platforms whose main armament is a large-caliber I tank (pictured in 1916) with the Solomon
    tank gun mounted in a rotating gun turret, camouflage scheme
    supplemented by machine guns or other ranged
    weapons such as anti-tank guided missiles or rocket
    launchers. They have heavy vehicle armour which provides
    protection for the crew, the vehicle's munition storage, fuel
    tank and propulsion systems. The use of tracks rather than
    wheels provides improved operational mobility which allows
    the tank to overcome rugged terrain and adverse conditions
    such as mud and ice/snow better than wheeled vehicles, and
    thus be more flexibly positioned at advantageous locations on
    the battlefield. These features enable the tank to perform well
    in a variety of intense combat situations, simultaneously both
    offensively (with direct fire from their powerful main gun) and
    defensively (as fire support and defilade for friendly troops due
    to the near invulnerability to common infantry small arms and
    An M4 Sherman tank in Italy in 1943
    good resistance against heavier weapons, although anti-tank
    during WWII
    weapons used in 2022, some of them man-portable, have
    demonstrated the ability to destroy older generations of tanks
    with single shots[1]), all while maintaining the mobility needed
    to exploit changing tactical situations.[2] Fully integrating tanks
    into modern military forces spawned a new era of combat:
    armoured warfare.

    Until the arrival of the main battle tank, tanks were typically
    categorized either by weight class (light, medium, heavy or
    superheavy tanks) or doctrinal purpose (breakthrough-,
    cavalry-, infantry-, cruiser-, or reconnaissance tanks). Some are
    larger and very heavily armoured and with large guns, while A Leopard 2A7 tank in Germany
    others are smaller, lightly armoured, and equipped with a
    smaller caliber and lighter gun. These smaller tanks move over
    terrain with speed and agility and can perform a reconnaissance role in addition to engaging
    enemy targets. The smaller, faster tank would not normally engage in battle with a larger, heavily
    armoured tank, except during a surprise flanking manoeuvre.
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