Tank Destroyers in a sentence

Tank destroyer A Norwegian anti-tank platoon equipped with NM142 TOW missile launchers main Tank destroyers and tank hunters are armed with an anti-tank gun or missile launcher, and are designed specifically to engage enemy armoured vehicles.

Germany Panzerjäger I The first German tank destroyers were the Panzerjäger ("tank hunters") which took an existing anti-tank gun and mounted it on a convenient chassis to give mobility, usually with just a three-sided gun shield for crew protection.

Modern tank destroyers Many forces' infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) carry anti-tank missiles in every infantry platoon, and attack helicopters have also added anti-tank capability to the modern battlefield.

In the past, self-propelled artillery has included direct-fire "Gun Motor Carriage" vehicles such as assault guns and tank destroyers (also known as self-propelled anti-tank guns).

Sturmgeschütz III German tank destroyers based on the Panzer III and later German tanks were unique in that they had more armor than their tank counterparts.

Rather, Germany devised entire bunkers beneath the Panzer turret, complete with thicker 16 to 40mm armor to combat powerful tank destroyers, a commander's seat to control the turret, and a steel or concrete-covered compartment below to house the crew.

The 653rd Heavy Panzerjäger Battalion, which had previously operated similarly oversized tank destroyers, began receiving its first Jagdtigers in September 1944.

Although often similar to tank destroyers, they carried larger caliber guns with weaker anti-armor performance but capable of firing powerful HE projectiles.

China has developed the tracked PTZ89 and the wheeled PTL02 tank destroyers.

Except for most American designs, tank destroyers were all turretless and had fixed or casemate superstructures.

Forty and Livesey 2006 p. 117 The open top and light armor made these tank destroyers vulnerable to anything greater than small-arms fire.

In particular, the SU-100 tank destroyers proved to be a formidable weapon in urban combat.

Late production StuG III variants, armed with a high-velocity dual-purpose 75mm gun blurred the line between assault guns and tank destroyers and were the Wehrmacht's most-produced armoured fighting vehicle, at some 9,400 examples.

Some gun-armed tank destroyers continue to be used.

The absence of a turret meant that tank destroyers could be manufactured significantly cheaper, faster and more easily than the tanks on which they were based and found particular favor when production resources were lacking.

The decision of German armored vehicle designers to use a casemate-style superstructure for all tank destroyers had the advantage of a reduced silhouette, allowing the crew to more frequently fire from defilade ambush positions.