Sentence examples for command tank from inspiring English sources

The command tank was an FT chassis, with the turret replaced by a superstructure, carrying a single communications radio.

This time, the French government consented and agreed to the sale of ten machine gun armed FTs and a single command tank.

Gearbox: Maybach OLVAR EG 40 12 16 B (eight forward and four reverse) Radio: FuG 5, Befehlswagen (command tank) version: FuG 8 (Sd.Kfz. 267), FuG 7 (Sd.Kfz.

The German command tank version (Panzerbefehlswagen 35 t)) exchanged ammunition for another radio set and a gyrocompass, although exactly how much isn't known.

Experimentally, a new regimental organisational structure was used, with three squadrons of thirteen tanks, a command tank and six reserve vehicles, instead of the then normal strength of 52 units.

The battalion was equipped with three tank companies (each company containing ten tanks) and a headquarters company; each company had three platoons, with three tanks a piece, and a command tank.

In every tank there was at least one radio and in some command tanks as many as three.

The 4th Panzer Division had 136 Panzer Is, 105 Panzer IIs, 40 Panzer IIIs, 24 Panzer IVs and 10 command tanks.

The 3rd Panzer Division's armoured regiments consisted of 117 Panzer Is, 128 Panzer IIs, 42 Panzer IIIs, 26 Panzer IVs and 27 command tanks.

Armour strength in Army Group B amounted to 808 tanks, of which 282 were Panzer Is, 288 were Panzer IIs, 123 were Panzer IIIs and 66 were Panzer IVs; 49 command tanks were also operational.

A number of Locusts were used by foreign militaries in the post-war period however; the Belgian Army used Locusts as command tanks for their M4 Sherman tank regiments, and the Egyptian Army used several company-sized units of Locusts during the 1948 Arab Israeli War.