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The Tank
- By Brenda Williams
- Published 31 October 2008
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The tank is one of the most recognizable military fighting vehicles used across the world today. It is usually painted in camouflage to match its environmental surroundings. A tank is a tracked vehicle, encased in armor that has a gun turret and room for up to five people in some models. The tank is used by almost every single country’s military forces to fight on the front line, on the ground. They are used to penetrate the front line of an enemy’s forces, especially troops that are camped out in buildings or strongholds. The tank can rumble through debris and buildings with ease because of its design and its gun turret can blast through the thickest of walls and other tanks.
Tanks have been in service during wartime since World War I. They were introduced for the sole purpose of breaking the stalemate known as trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the deadliest forms of fighting known to mankind. Troops would sit in trenches for weeks at a time, storm across open ground and be cut down by gunfire and mustard gas. The tanks were used to move across rough terrain such as barbed wire, shrapnel and to maneuver through small arms fire. The first army to employ the use of tanks was the British army in World War I. The first tank hit the battlefield in 1916 and tanks, at first, were not a war winning tactic in the First World War.
A tank consists of road wheels that are surrounded by tracks for traction on treacherous terrain, a driver’s hatch, driver’s optics, a main gun, an optical periscope, a main gun, a gun mantlet, a co-axial gun, a hatch, machine gun ammunitions, a turret and a turret ring a hull and an engine compartment.
Camouflage is used on tanks to protect them from the enemy. Camouflage can come in a variety of color schemes but the most popular ones are brown for the desert and green and brown for the forest. Depending on where the tanks are sent the camouflage is then painted onto the tank for that specific environment.
Tanks have been used in every war since their invention in World War I. They have been used more effectively in the wars following World War I and have developed new armors and new designs throughout the years. They have gone from one man vehicles to vehicles that can hold at most five people. Tanks have also picked up travel speed over the years and further firing range.
Tanks were heavily used by every army in World War II and played prominent roles in the German Blitzkrieg. The Blitzkrieg was when military aircraft would bomb a city and then troops on foot would enter the city behind the protection of tanks to minimize injury and death among the soldiers. This would all happen extremely fast and with no warning so that the city and its troops were not able to prepare for an attack or a defense of their city or town.
Tanks have been in service during wartime since World War I. They were introduced for the sole purpose of breaking the stalemate known as trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the deadliest forms of fighting known to mankind. Troops would sit in trenches for weeks at a time, storm across open ground and be cut down by gunfire and mustard gas. The tanks were used to move across rough terrain such as barbed wire, shrapnel and to maneuver through small arms fire. The first army to employ the use of tanks was the British army in World War I. The first tank hit the battlefield in 1916 and tanks, at first, were not a war winning tactic in the First World War.
A tank consists of road wheels that are surrounded by tracks for traction on treacherous terrain, a driver’s hatch, driver’s optics, a main gun, an optical periscope, a main gun, a gun mantlet, a co-axial gun, a hatch, machine gun ammunitions, a turret and a turret ring a hull and an engine compartment.
Camouflage is used on tanks to protect them from the enemy. Camouflage can come in a variety of color schemes but the most popular ones are brown for the desert and green and brown for the forest. Depending on where the tanks are sent the camouflage is then painted onto the tank for that specific environment.
Tanks have been used in every war since their invention in World War I. They have been used more effectively in the wars following World War I and have developed new armors and new designs throughout the years. They have gone from one man vehicles to vehicles that can hold at most five people. Tanks have also picked up travel speed over the years and further firing range.
Tanks were heavily used by every army in World War II and played prominent roles in the German Blitzkrieg. The Blitzkrieg was when military aircraft would bomb a city and then troops on foot would enter the city behind the protection of tanks to minimize injury and death among the soldiers. This would all happen extremely fast and with no warning so that the city and its troops were not able to prepare for an attack or a defense of their city or town.
