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Ram Mk.II – late production

The history and development of tanks in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps can be broken down into smaller categories: their origin during World War I; the interwar period; World War II; the Cold War; and the modern era.

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Tanks of Canada

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armistice. The first tanks since the First World War did not arrive until a few Vickers Mark VI light tanks appeared the year before Canada went to war with...

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Think tanks based in Canada

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This article is a list of notable think tanks based in Canada. This table is partly based on a list of think tanks published by McGill University's Career...

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Ram tank

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Valentine tanks for the British; this was followed later with one for 488 complete tanks for Canada. However the Valentine was an infantry tank and Canada required...

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Tanks in World War II

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Tanks were an important weapons system in World War II. Although tanks in the inter-war years were the subject of widespread research, few were made,...

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Leopard 2

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intention to send its tank fleet of old Yugoslav M-84 and Soviet T-72 tanks to Ukraine in exchange for German Leopard 2 tanks and Marder Infantry Fighting...

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Tanks of the United States

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in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the...

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Tanks of France

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spring or summer of 1945, which marked a new era of french tanks in post-war era when French tanks needed to be modernized. Various tank designs were built...

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Tanks of the Ukrainian Army

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tanks manufactured in Ukraine, leftover Soviet tanks in the Ukrainian Ground Forces today as well as designs imported from other countries and tanks captured...

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Grizzly I cruiser

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decided the nascent Canadian armoured divisions would be equipped by tanks produced in Canada. The result was the Ram cruiser tank, based on the chassis...

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Tank

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light tank classes, with medium tanks covering the balance of those between. The British maintained cruiser tanks, focused on speed, and infantry tanks that...

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List of main battle tanks by country

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a list of main battle tanks, and other vehicles serving that role, in active military service with countries of the world. A main battle tank (MBT) is...

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Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

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World War. However, the 1st Canadian Tank Battalion was still training in Mark V tanks in the U.K. when the Canadian Tank Corps was finally authorized...

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List of equipment of the Canadian Army

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Forces Command, the Canadian Joint Operations Command, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force. See Tanks of Canada for additional details...

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Think tank

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in terms of the quality of their research. Later generations of think tanks have tended to be more ideologically oriented. Modern think tanks began as...

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Tanks of the Soviet Union

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to produce tanks which later made the famous T-34 and other Soviet tanks. Imperial Russia had flirted with some designs such as the Tsar Tank which was...

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Tanks of China

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This article on military tanks deals with the history of tanks employed by various military forces belonging to the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party...

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List of main battle tanks by generation

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planners organize tanks with the first generation of tanks up to 1950, and four generations of tanks (with the first main battle tank being the third-generation...

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British heavy tanks of the First World War

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armament. Tanks also carried supplies and troops. British heavy tanks are distinguished by a rhomboidal shape with a high climbing face of the track,...

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Japanese tanks of World War II

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the war with China, Japan produced a large number of tanks. Although initially the Japanese used tanks to good effect in their campaigns, full-scale armored...

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Tanks in World War I

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"the tank" because of its resemblance to a steel water tank. The French fielded their first tanks in April 1917 and ultimately produced far more tanks than...

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The Tank Museum

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of the museum's World War I tanks the hall tells the story of the men who crewed the first tanks between 1916 and 1918. Featured tanks: Mark I tank,...

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Tank classification

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tank army formed of Destroyer tanks, Battle tanks (of Heavy, Medium and Light types), Torpedo tanks (utilising large trench mortars), Engineer tanks,...

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Leopard 1

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Centurion, Canada acquired 114 Leopard C1 tanks (equivalent to Leopard 1A3 with laser rangefinder) in 1978–79 for its Land Forces. Most of these tanks were...

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Valentine tank

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6,855 tanks, with 2,394 exported from Britain to the Soviet Union under lend-lease. To develop its own tank forces, Canada had established tank production...

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German tanks in World War II

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numerous tank designs used in World War II. In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built tanks. German tanks were...

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DD tank

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DD or duplex drive tanks, nicknamed "Donald Duck tanks", were a type of amphibious swimming tank developed by the British during the Second World War...

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