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The Glacis Plate
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Armor, the modern cavalry, is the combat arm of decision. The glacis plate refers to the primary armor belt of a combat vehicle. It faces the front, toward the enemy, to face all challenges.
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glacisplate · 4 years ago
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Tiger I of s.SS-PzAbt 101 abandoned on a roadside in northern France, 1944. [original color] https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2wrF8J-93/?igshid=lkgqzy76vtao
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glacisplate · 4 years ago
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Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky (left) conversing with Marshal Georgy Zhukov, after landing at Port Arthur, China, 1945. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKnExOyJGb_/?igshid=16vdlwk6ejr7n
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glacisplate · 5 years ago
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glacisplate · 5 years ago
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German Second World War armour and crew miniatures/studies. 
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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Destroyed by Japanese artillery American landing barges LCM and tanks in the landing area, Iwo Jima, February 1945
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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M1 CATTB (Component Advanced Technology Test Bed) - an experimental program to create a new tank based on the M1.
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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M1 Abrams Tank Of The Iraqi Army. The car was destroyed by being hit by a rocket complex “the bassoon”, the city of al-Ramadi city 14.06.2014
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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Group shot of children on the tank “King tiger”. Tank Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B Tiger II (Sd.Kfz. 182) with tactical number “ 222 ” belonged to the 501st SS heavy tank battalion and was part of the Piper battle group. The machine was lost on 19 December 1944 during the Ardennes offensive. Stavlo, Belgium, January 1945.
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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Is-2 tank in the Assembly shop of the Chelyabinsk Kirov plant. 1944.
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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T-90A
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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A us marine on Iwo Jima examines a broken Japanese “tank” carved out of volcanic rock and designed to misinform US troops about the number/location of the enemy, simultaneously forcing aircraft and naval artillery to spend shells on such “combat” units.
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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German heavy tanks “Tiger” in the field Parking lot.
It should be noted that painting of tanks was carried out in the same place.
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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Т-72М1
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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K.O. tank Pz.Kpfw. V “ Panther»
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M47 Patton No. 331 by Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (1947), USA.
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glacisplate · 6 years ago
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Is-2 and is-3, Kuril Islands ‘19
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