tank destroyer
noun
: a highly mobile lightly armored vehicle usually on a half-track or a tank chassis and mounting a cannon
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One of its efforts includes offering visitors a ride in a M36 Jackson tank destroyer, a 32-ton machine.
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 May 2025
Among the various anti-tank options at this battlegroup's disposal will be the massive Elefant, a heavy tank destroyer that can trash just about anything coming into its sights.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
In June 1944, he was assigned to be a platoon commander of four M-10 tank destroyers.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
The Army adopted the M2 as the anti-aircraft gun of tanks, halftracks, trucks, tank destroyers, and other vehicles.
—Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
Audie Murphy is credited with single-handedly fighting off dozens of Germans during World War II in France by climbing aboard a burning tank destroyer while wounded and using its machine gun.
—al, 18 Mar. 2022
Edward trained with a tank destroyer unit at Fort Hood, Texas, and went to Europe in October 1944.
—Steve Bowersox, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 May 2021
This German tank, knowing that I possibly would be supported by a tank destroyer, started to pull away.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2014
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 May 2025
Among the various anti-tank options at this battlegroup's disposal will be the massive Elefant, a heavy tank destroyer that can trash just about anything coming into its sights.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
In June 1944, he was assigned to be a platoon commander of four M-10 tank destroyers.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
The Army adopted the M2 as the anti-aircraft gun of tanks, halftracks, trucks, tank destroyers, and other vehicles.
—Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
Audie Murphy is credited with single-handedly fighting off dozens of Germans during World War II in France by climbing aboard a burning tank destroyer while wounded and using its machine gun.
—al, 18 Mar. 2022
Edward trained with a tank destroyer unit at Fort Hood, Texas, and went to Europe in October 1944.
—Steve Bowersox, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 May 2021
This German tank, knowing that I possibly would be supported by a tank destroyer, started to pull away.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2014
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