tank corps
Military vehicle unit
A tank corps is a military formation organized around armored vehicles, particularly tanks.
The term dates to World War I, when armies first deployed tanks as distinct units.
A corps typically designates a large operational unit comprising multiple divisions: The tank corps spearheaded the offensive.
The term may refer broadly to a nation's entire armored force or to a specific numbered unit within it.
- armoredProtected by metal covering
- armored divisionMilitary formation with tanks
- battalionMid-sized military unit
- panzerGerman armored fighting vehicle
- regimentColonel-led military unit
warfare · divisions · turret · treads · steel · military · offensive · blitzkrieg · shock troops · ground offensive · mechanized · combat · formation · maneuver · Patton · Rommel · iron cross · desert
- Tank warfareMBT, turret, hull, tracks, treads
- armor warfarearmored vehicles, armored divisions, armored units, armored combat, armored warfare
- Axis MilitaryWehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Afrika Korps, Waffen-SS, panzer
- Cold War militariesSoviet Army, Warsaw Pact, Soviet military, People's Liberation Army, armored divisions
- WWII ForcesWehrmacht, Red Army, British Army, US Navy, Royal Navy
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
tank corpsinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · light infantry · paratroopers · infantry division · airborne forces
tank corpsinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · light infantry · horse cavalry · mounted infantry · mule train
tank, corps, tanks, tanked, tanking, tanker, tankers, corporal, corporals