Info about T20 Tanks during World War ll
This tank is called a Medium T20 Tank which you probably read in the title, but if you didn’t you just read it in this paragraph. Anyway this tank can haul jeeps and several crew members. The abandoned T20 Medium Tank was envisioned as a possible successor to the famous M4 Sherman Medium Tank line for the Americans. There was also a T23 Tank that was just the same body and equipment on it. The production amount of this T20 Tank was only a total of 4 tanks built of this type tank, which is not a lot of tanks, but it cost a lot of money.
The T20 Tank weighs 32.9 tons making it a lot heavier than a semi truck. Lots of people/crew liked the tank, however, it needed a bigger engine to be able to go
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18.70 feet is long, but not as long as the modern day tanks. Today people can make tanks, cars, trucks, etc. as big as they want to, but not too big to fit on the road.
The T20 Tank is originally made in the United States and the manufacturer is the U.S Ordnance Department. This T20 Tank is made in the year of 1944, which means that the tank is 72 years old.
The government makes replica’s of the T20 Tank. The only thing about the tank is, is that it cannot start up and that the tanks are life size replica’s. A replica means that it looks like the object, such as the T20 Tank but it is not functional.
Power to this tank was served through a Ford GAN V-8 gasoline fueled engine of 470 horsepower output. The engine offered road speeds of 25 mph and an operational range of 99 miles. The engine was at the rear of the hull and the main armament was sat within a 360-degree traversing turret.
The tank ammunition was 75mm, 30 caliber, and a 50 caliber. The 50 caliber could penetrate through a building. The 50 caliber is heavy, but the part of the 50 caliber that shoots off is not that big. It may be 1 inch to maybe 2 inches in size so it is likely that it could penetrate through a
In World War II the Germans had better tanks than the allies did. The German tanks had stronger armor. They had bigger guns, and a better gun range. They also used better tactics, and their thank crew were better trained with more skills.
These machines we're made because trench warfare was slow and unpredictable, because of sneak attacks, just waiting for time to shoot seemed very slow too them. Tanks we're able to drag barbed wire away with an grappling hook or also to flatten barbed wire so that the soldiers couldn't cross it. The first tanks we're difficult to maneuver mostly because of thick mud and uneven grounds of the Western Front. The tanks we're also hot and very small as well as cramped. The idea for the tanks came from studying farm
In transporting the Warwolf they had to disassemble and fill 30 wagons to move the behemoth.
The last class of weapons to cover is the main anti-tank weapons. During the 1940s the main anti-tank weapon is also one of the most famous weapons that were on the battle field, the M9, also known as the Bazooka. The M9 weighed in at 14.3 lbs unloaded at 61 inches. The warhead itself weighed in at 3.5 lbs and was a 57 millimeter caliber and consisted of a 1 lb shape charge that could penetrate up to 4 inches of armor. The warhead was only accurate out to 120 yards, which is getting close to a tank for a shot, but could be fired out to 500 yards. As the M9 was long in
5. “Suddenly the tank exploded with a noise like the sound of a thousand machine guns,” said to the newspaper.
The 758th trained on the M-5 light tank, which carried a crew of four. Powered by twin Cadillac engines, it could reach a maximum speed of 40 mph and had an open-road cruising range of 172 miles. It was armed with a .30 caliber machine gun mounted to fire along the same axis as the tank's main armament, a 37mm cannon. When the tracer bullets from the .30 caliber registered on a target, the cannon would be fired, hopefully scoring a direct hit. The M-5 was also armed with two more .30-caliber machine guns, one on the turret and one in the bow. The light tank was employed to provide fire support, mobility and crew protection in screening and reconnaissance missions.
Phase 2 efforts will demonstrate a rep-rate fire capability. Management will be required for sustained firing. The firing rates will help the development of both the launcher and rail technology.
The design reduced overall length during transport and storage. The nose section mounted using hinges to permit easy access to the avionics and other mission equipment. The center section incorporated the wing-box, fuel tanks engine and landing gear. Because of its dual, hover and conventional aircraft flight requirements, Burt designed a complex structural arrangement. The Allison C20 gas turbine engine, attached to a combining transmission was integrated into the center fuselage. Drive shafts from the combining transmission pass through the center of the wing and connect to transmissions (Bell 206 tail rotor gear boxes) in nacelles at each wing-tip. The cantilevered wing box experienced very diverse structural loads during hover and conventional forward flight, and an additional challenge required the wing-box wet fuel tank preserve the dry integrity of the transmission drive shaft conduits. The removal of the entire top part of the fuselage provided access to the engine and center gear box. The removable tail was attached using a lightweight screw row. The tail contained various antenna and actuators for the pitch control surfaces. Scaled Composites installed the hard points and mounts
At 0408, just after stand-to began, the TOW section spoted another small group of individuals on the hillside west of Wanat” (Wanat 122). The Company Commander CPT Myers felt that the individuals were a threat to the COP. Around an hour before sunrise shots rang out from the city just 150 meters north of the small unfortified COP. Immediately following was round after round of RPG and machine gun fire. The RPG fire immediate disabled the TOW Vehicle and the 60mm and 120mm mortar systems. Before disabling the 120mm mortar system the mortar crew were able to fire six to nine rounds. Artillery became heavily relied after the mortars were
Tanks were first introduced during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in September 1916. The tanks of WWI played a really important role during the war because it increased mobility and it broke the stalemate of trench warfare. One of the few problems the tank had during the war was the speed the tanks go. It only goes about four miles per hour and that’s pretty slow and could only do so much.
According to the Branch Davidians the federal agents used the tanks to crush propane and fuel
In WWI, the western front was battled in trenches which means there were not many advancements in the war due to no man's land. No man’s land was the area between trenches that separate the the two sides fighting against each other. For this reason tanks were born into the war and kept growing in the 1900. The tank had a low centre of gravity and a long track length which made it easy to cross trenches and rough terrain. With 8mm thick armour covering this war machine, small arms would not damage the tank. But when faced with heavier fire there would be bullet splash, bullet splash is when a bullet hits the tank and parts of the inside of the tank would shoot into the faces of the crew members. The solution to this problem was that the crew
The American 155mm artillery gun was an exceptional artillery weapon of WWII. Well known by its nickname the "Long Tom", the gun could fire a 95 lb. projectile upwards of 15 miles with high accuracy. It could fire more than 40 rounds per hour of high-explosive, chemical, smoke or illuminating shells. Two different types were built, the M1 and M2. The M2 version fixed a deadly defective breach, starting in April 1944. The army built this weapon to have a big impact on the soldiers they were firing on. The American army is the first army to use and develop this weapon.
My greatest passion and a field in which I'd like to have my career in, tanks and armored warfare. I’ve covered a lot in the last half paragraph in that field. The overwhelming majority of people don't know much beyond ‘big gun and armor’ generics. Tanks are composed of three categories, the gun, the armor, the mobility. If you increase the caliber of the gun you have to design the turret to be bigger to accommodate the cannon and subsequently the hull
Located under the main gun is the work horse of all the components. It integrates the commander's independent thermal viewer into the FCS, it also provides communication between the gun/turret drive and gunners primary sight in normal mode. The IFCEU converts the GPS gunners primary sight switches analog to digital data transmits on the 1553B data bus to the iTMPU improved turret mission processor for the use of ballistic solutions. The IFCEU also determines if the tank is able to fire the main gun by checking if super elevation/ lead angle offsets are correct, gun/sight error is greater than 0.25 mils in AZ/EZ. The iFCEU also prevents the gun from firing in selected modes; which are bore sight, zero, MRS, and Diagnostic Test