tank battles
Mechanized warfare clashes
Tank battles are military engagements fought primarily between armored vehicles.
The term evokes large-scale clashes of World War II and later conflicts, with dozens or hundreds of tanks maneuvering across open terrain: the tank battles of the North African campaign, Kursk was the largest tank battle in history.
The phrase also applies to armored warfare video games and tabletop simulations.
- reactive armorExplosive-lined protective plating
- KurskRussian city and submarine
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- Erwin RommelGerman WWII field marshal
- Operation Desert Storm1991 allied Iraq offensive
World War II · tracks · armor plating · Algeria · flanking maneuvers · caterpillar tracks · open terrain · armored divisions · defensive positions · firing line · Allies · rolling thunder · Russian steppes · Libya · desert warfare · cannon · hull · targeting systems
- war gameswargaming, wargame, war games, combat simulations, Age of Empires
- Arab-Israeli WarsSix-Day War, Yom Kippur War, Suez Crisis, war of attrition, Israel
- armor warfaretanks, armored vehicles, armored divisions, armored units, armored combat
- Battle of the BulgeBastogne, Patton, McAuliffe, 101st Airborne, winter offensive
- Eastern FrontStalingrad, Kursk, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev
- WWII MediterraneanAfrika Korps, Rommel, Montgomery, Tobruk, Tunisia
tank battleshand-to-hand combat
Fighting without distance weapons
trench warfare · cavalry charges · infantry combat · bayonet charges · guerrilla warfare
tank battlesnaval warfare
Military operations at sea
sea battles · dogfights · submarine warfare · amphibious assaults · cyber warfare
tank battlesguerrilla raids
Surprise attacks by insurgents
covert operations · asymmetric warfare · hit-and-run tactics · ambushes · skirmishes