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An armoured spearhead (American English: armored spearhead) is a formation of armoured fighting vehicles, mostly tanks, that form the front of an offensive thrust during a battle. [1]

23 relations: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, Şahin Bey, Battle of Kalach, Battle of Kursk, Battle of the Bulge, Brilliant Anti-Tank, Burton Joyce, Flying wedge, George S. Patton, Gustav Knittel, History of Nottingham, List of military tactics, List of nicknames of United States Army divisions, Malmedy massacre, Operation Citadel, Operation Nasr, Patterns of Conflict, Samrong Sen, Soviet invasion of Manchuria, Spearhead, 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (United States), 766th Independent Infantry Regiment (North Korea), 9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht).

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the invasion of the Imperial State of Iran during the Second World War by Soviet, British and other Commonwealth armed forces.

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Şahin Bey

Mehmed Said (1877, Gaziantep, Aleppo Vilayet – 28 March 1920), better known as Şahin Bey, was the commander of the Turkish revolutionaries that were stationed in the city of Gaziantep during the Turkish War of Independence.

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Battle of Kalach

Unit locations on July 25, 1942The large reservoir in the southwest corner of the map did not exist in 1942 | label.

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Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (south-west of Moscow) in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943.

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.

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Brilliant Anti-Tank

The Northrop Grumman Brilliant Anti-Tank (BAT) is a United States submunition round dispensed from a missile.

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Burton Joyce

Burton Joyce is a large English village and civil parish in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Nottingham, bounded by the smaller Stoke Bardolph to the south and Bulcote to the north-east.

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Flying wedge

A flying wedge (also called flying V or wedge formation, or simply wedge) is a configuration created from a body moving forward in a triangular formation.

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George S. Patton

General George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Gustav Knittel

Gustav Knittel (27 November 1914 – 30 June 1976) was a mid-ranking commander in the SS Division Leibstandarte (LSSAH) who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

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History of Nottingham

This article is about the history of Nottingham.

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List of military tactics

This page contains a list of military tactics.

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List of nicknames of United States Army divisions

Many Army divisions have over the years earned nicknames; some laudatory, some derogatory, but mostly colorful.

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Malmedy massacre

The Malmedy massacre (1944) was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were killed by their German captors near Malmedy, Belgium, during World War II.

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Operation Citadel

Operation Citadel (Unternehmen Zitadelle) was a German offensive operation against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient during the Second World War on the Eastern Front that initiated the Battle of Kursk.

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Operation Nasr

Operation Nasr, fought in early January 1981, was a major battle of the Iran–Iraq War.

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Patterns of Conflict

Patterns of Conflict was a presentation by Colonel John Boyd outlining his theories on modern combat and how the key to success was to upset the enemy's "observation-orientation-decision-action time cycle or loop", or OODA loop.

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Samrong Sen

Samrong Sen (alternates: Somron-Seng, Somrong Seng, Somrong Sen, Som-Ron-Sen)Sophady (2007), p. 7 on the east bank of the Stueng Chinit River is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia.

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Soviet invasion of Manchuria

The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (Манчжурская стратегическая наступательная операция, lit. Manchzhurskaya Strategicheskaya Nastupatelnaya Operatsiya) or simply the Manchurian Operation (Маньчжурская операция), began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

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Spearhead

A spearhead is the sharpened bellend tip (head) of a spear.

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2nd Ranger Infantry Company (United States)

The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was a Ranger light infantry company of the United States Army active during the Korean War.

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766th Independent Infantry Regiment (North Korea)

The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment (제766독립보병련대) was a light infantry unit of North Korea's Korean People's Army (KPA) that existed briefly during the Korean War.

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9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

The 9th Panzer Division was a panzer division of the Wehrmacht Army during World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_spearhead

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