tank battalion
Heavy armor formation
A tank battalion is a military unit consisting of several tank companies, typically comprising 30 to 60 armored fighting vehicles along with support personnel.
In most armies, battalions form the basic tactical unit for armored warfare, capable of independent operations or integration into larger formations: The tank battalion advanced across the desert at dawn.
- companyCommercial enterprise or guests
- armored personnel carrierProtected military transport vehicle
- platoonSmall infantry formation
- forward observerSoldier directing distant fire
- regimentColonel-led military unit
maintenance crew · corps · caterpillar tracks · rolling thunder · combined arms · task force · division · headquarters · field hospital · brigade · Patton · iron cross · squadron · mechanized infantry · armored division · artillery support · logistics · supply chain management
- Army Battalions
- armor warfarearmored vehicles, armored divisions, armored units, armored combat, armored warfare
- WWII ForcesWehrmacht, Red Army, British Army, US Navy, Royal Navy
- reinforcementsrelief force, reserve team, reinforcement, second wave, replacements
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- military unitsarmy, squad, brigade, company, platoon
tank battalioninfantry battalion
Military ground force unit
rifle company · foot soldiers · mountain infantry · light infantry · airborne infantry
tank battalionlight infantry
Minimally equipped mobile troops
foot patrol · guerrilla fighters · irregular forces · militia · partisans
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