Achtung - Panzer! (Cassell Military Classics)
Language: English
Pages: 220
ISBN: 0304352853
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Radio. Every modern tank has a radio receiver, and every command tank is equipped with both receiver and transmitter.10 Tank units are now under guaranteed command and control. Inside the larger tanks are various devices to enable the crew members to communicate with one another. Radio is likewise the principal medium of control between tank units and the other forces, and radios are the main equipment of the signals elements which provide the communications for the tank units and their.
Until 1944, when the war was all but lost. He died in Bavaria in 1954. 1. British Mark I Tank, 1916. 2. British Mark V Tank, 1918. 3. French Schneider tank with infantry. 4. A knocked-out Schneider tank within the German lines on the Aisne, spring 1917. 5. A French Renault F.T. light tank, 1917. 6. A French St. Chamond, 1917. 7. A British Medium A (Whippet), 1918. 8. A British Mark II, 1929. 9. A German A7V tank, 1918. 10. A German LKII tank,.
The rewards will be all the greater. We have seen, however, that neither the Germans with their poison gas nor the British with their tanks were willing to accept the risk of employing new weapons en masse in a surprise attack. Once the fleeting opportunity had been missed, surprise could depend only on the kinds of time-honoured techniques which had been used with the conventional weapons. Even then, however, there remained considerable scope for catching the enemy off guard. Apparently.
German infantry. But the tank forces also suffered severely (46 dead and 300 wounded, and 70 machines) whenever the German artillery had good observation or could fire over open sights. The attack had arrived very late, in full daylight, and because of this the French infantry were immediately spotted immediately and the German artillery and machine-gun fire prevented them from keeping up with the tanks. The tanks had to stay up front for a considerable time after they had reached their.
Armoured support either, for the tank forces were exhausted by the first day of action. Another consequence of incorporating the tanks so completely with the infantry formations was that only a proportion of the machines ever got into combat; in the case of Tenth Army we are talking about 223 tanks of the 343 available; 120 were tied down with the rearmost infantry lines and reserves, and were completely ineffective. The French undoubtedly made tactical gains in the fighting on 18 July, but they.