• Tank-destroyer

    Full definition of tank-destroyer

    Noun

      • 7 January 1917, James Douglas, Greatest Battle the World Will Ever See: Only Two Ways in Which the War Can End, I have no doubt that they will try to provide tank-destroyers.
      • 11 May 1936, Belgium’s newest article of warfare is the “tank-destroyer.” It is a small tank, run by a continuous drive, and pulls a powerful field gun.
      • 31 January 1937, Ignatius Phayre, Menace of Sabotage, “Balloon” aprons for air defence; bigger and better artillery of the clouds, firing 1lb. shells at 100 a minute; machine-guns to excel the Czecho-Slovak “Bren” type (worked by gas and firing 600 shots a minute); tank-destroyers of flat trajectory great range and high power of penetration; above all, the “torpedo-proof” warship—here are but a few of the elaborate “killers” and “saviours” to which the ablest human talents are at this moment turned.
      • 24 May 2008, David Mehegan, Sixty years of silence, The tank-destroyer was a kind of armored car with a 76mm cannon.
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