Tag: military history
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Panhard EBR 90 F2
Type: Armoured Car Nation: France Period: Cold War Location: Musée de l‘Abri de Hatten, France What you see is what you get The Panhard EBR was an armoured reconnaissance vehicle and that is literally what “EBR” stood for: “engin blindé de reconnaissance”. Wheeled vehicles were generally deemed faster than tracked vehicles and – important for…
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BM-13-16 NM Katyusha
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Gedenkstätte Seelower Höhen, Seelow, Germany Just in time The BM-13 first was first produced in May 1941. Just around forty units had been built when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union the following month, but by the end of the war it would be…
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PT-76 (Model 1954)
Type: Light Tank/Special Purpose VehicleNation: Soviet UnionPeriod: Cold WarLocation: Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (Depot), Dresden, Germany Archimedes would be proud The PT-76 was developed from 1949 onwards by the renowned engineer Josef Kotin who previously had supervised the design of the KV-1, IS-2, SU-152 and ISU-152. When the Soviet Navy became interested in the new…
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SU-152
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery/Tank Destroyer Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Lubuskie Muzeum Wojskowe, Drzonów, Poland Versatile bunker buster The SU-152 was built on the chassis of the KV-1S heavy tank. Designed to attack enemy fortifications, it was replacing the T-34-based SU-122 which had been found unsuitable to fight against tanks. “SU” stood for…
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T-34/85
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Kienitz, Germany Late-war upgrade The T-34/85 was an improved version of the Soviet Union’s standard medium tank of the Second World War. First produced in January 1944, the new model was a much more efficient combat vehicle due to its 85 mm gun and…
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Char Schneider CA1 (Replica)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: France Period: World War 1 Location: Monument National des chars d‘assaut, Berry-au-Bac, France The world’s other first tank The Schneider CA1 was the first French tank. It was designed at the same time as the British Little Willie prototype, but since both countries treated their tank programmes as secrets which might…
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Sturmpanzerwagen A7V (Replica)
Type: Heavy TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK The first tank battle The A7V was deployed for the first time on 21 March 1918 at the Canal de Saint-Quentin in Northern France. The first tank-on-tank engagement in history would take place only a month later. On 24 April three German A7Vs…
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Sturmpanzerwagen A7V (Replica)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 1 Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Difficult decisions The A7V was the first and only operational German tank of World War 1. When the first British Mark Is had been crawling across the battlefield on the Somme in September 1916, the German reaction (aside from a historical…
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Mark V (Male)
Type: Heavy TankNation: United KingdomPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK End of the line Concluding the evolutionary process that had started with the Mark I, the Mark V was the third and last major operational British heavy tank of World War 1. Around 400 Mark Vs were produced until the Armistice of…
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Mark IV (Male)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 1 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Clever refinements The Mark IV‘s production began in March 1917 and was carried out at several factories in England and Scotland. As the long six-pounder guns on previous tanks had had a tendency to get stuck in the ground…