Interesting facts about history of army tanks
In World War I, army tanks were not equipped with towers, while a French light tank known as the FT-17 was developed. Although the French tank was only a machine gun as a primary weapon, he brought the country to the path of the design of modern tank army. Compared to tanks used in the early days of World War II tanks, which were used in World War I were relatively high. By the time World War II began, the number of army tanks were equipped with 37-mm cannon. World War II was the time when army tanks increased in size, was not even 50 ton Tiger tanks. This meant that larger sized tanks could carry larger weapons.
During the Second World War, the Soviet army tank was the biggest gun of tanks, it was the IS-2 tank with a 122mm cannon. The IS-2 tank was the Soviets way of responding to the Germans Tiger and King Tiger army tanks, which were equipped with an 88mm cannon. M-26 Pershing was built in the United States, and has a 90-mm cannon. During the Second World War, the armor is mostly made of steel, but after the Second World War, when SABOT tours and guided missiles developed new types of armor were also made. In connection with the development of new armor, more primary weapon army tanks were smaller. The tank was harder to get closer to the ground, it was.
Since they will drown in the fields of Vietnam's rice, especially the United States used its tanks army mobile artillery. North Vietnam used the T-55 and T-34 tanks. When the U.S. invaded Vietnam in 1972, many Soviet tanks built by the North Vietnamese Army helicopters were destroyed by the United States, who were armed with guided missiles. In the 1960s and 1970s, in order to enhance their fighting abilities, army tanks were equipped with night vision goggles, laser sights and other improvements.
In order to destroy the rocket and forms an explosive charge of rounds of armor was designed by the Israelis. Studies to the Americans and British have shown that the armor was based on uranium exhausted. Shotguns have been added in modern tanks of the army. At about the same weight, shotguns can shoot a big envelope as threaded pipe of the old army tanks, and they also last longer. The original M-1 used 105 guns, while the German Leopard 2 and M1A3 uses a 120-mm guns.
Army tanks that are used in our time are now equipped with wireless networks that can be used to communicate with the air support aircraft, command posts, artillery and other military tanks and helicopters. As the years go by, and because there are more technological advances, army tanks will be more useful and more deadly.