armored column
Military vehicle formation
An armored column is a military formation of tanks and other armored vehicles moving in a line, typically along a road during an advance or offensive operation.
The column formation allows rapid movement but creates vulnerability to ambush: The armored column stretched for miles along the highway.
News reports often use the term when describing military movements during invasions or counteroffensives.
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- tank battalionMilitary formation of armored vehicles
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- rolling thunderProlonged atmospheric reverberation
- militaryArmed forces collectively
advance · mechanized · infantry · assault · formation · battle line · offensive · shock and awe · patrol · battlefield · rumble · steel · treads · warfare · blitzkrieg · division · regiment · platoon
- convoysconvoy, motorcade, supply convoy, military convoy, caravan
- Tank warfaretank, tanks, main battle tank, MBT, heavy tank
- armor warfaretanks, tank battalions, tank commanders, tank crews, blitzkrieg
- armored vehiclestank, Stryker, Bradley, LAV, Humvee
armored columnlight infantry
Minimally equipped mobile troops
foot soldiers · foot patrol · airborne troops · paratroopers · mountain troops
armor, armored, armour, armoured, arming, armament, armaments, armature, armory