Tank

Soviet T-34/85 Tank: The tank that beat the Nazis

Tanks are a type of Armored Fighting Vehicle characterized by thick armor, heavy weapons, and no troop transport capacity.

Modern tanks are tracked vehicles used primarily for line-of-sight combat, armed cannons and machine guns. The first tanks were built during the Great War by the British as a means of overcomming German trench lines, but proper doctrine for using tanks would not develop until World War II.

Tanks got their name because of a ploy to avoid German intelligence discovering their first deployment by describing 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)

Tanks in Science Fiction

• AAT
• Leman Russ Tank