Tank destroyer
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A tank destroyer, tank hunter or tank killer is a type of armoured fighting vehicle, predominantly intended for anti-tank duties. They are typically armed with a direct fire artillery gun, also known
Two American M10 tank destroyers in Belgium during World War II
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M18 Hellcat
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The M18 Hellcat was a tank destroyer used by the United States Army in World War II and the Korean War. Despite being equipped with the same main gun as some variants of the much larger Sherman tank,
Tank destroyer
…was the 3-inch gun motor carriage M10, later supplemented by the 90 mm gun motor carriage M36—both based on the M4 Sherman hull and powertrain—and the 76 mm gun motor carriage M18 (Hellcat), based on a unique hull and powertrain design, with a slight visual resemblance to what was used for the later M24 Chaffee light tank. The M18 came…
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M18 Hellcat at TankFest, Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset, South West England, in 2015
M18 Hellcat of the 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion in action at Wiesloch, Germany, April 1945
An M39 carrier used in the Korean War