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Military Vehicles in Action

Dynamic scenes of various military tanks and vehicles in training exercises. Settings range from desert landscapes to maintenance areas.

Baqubah, Iraq - Georgian Army light tank

Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 109th Field Artillery Regiment, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard conduct preventative checks and maintenance as they draw Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) May 10 in Pabrade, Lithuania. The Soldiers are deployed to Lithuania in support of Defender Europe 22 and NATO exercise Flaming Thunder.

More than 600 Idaho Army National Guard Soldiers, joined by Soldiers from the Montana, Oregon, Ohio and South Carolina Army National Guards, have been training in Fort Bliss, Texas, since mobilizing from Gowen Field in early August. The task force, Task Force Rattler, will deploy to Southwest Asia later this month in support of Operation Spartan Shield, where they will rotate out with 250 Soldiers from the Idaho Army National Guard as well as Soldiers from the Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Florida Army National Guards. Each rotation is approximately 12 months. Soldiers from the 118th Infantry Regiment from South Carolina National Guard and the 285th Medical Company from the Ohio National Guard are also part of Task Force Rattler, which provide the task force the ability to execute combined arms maneuvers. The intense training at Fort Bliss consisted of long hours with day and night combined arms maneuver missions with the Idaho Army National Guard shooting 120mm mortar rounds from M113 A

Huge firepower cannon Soviet tank T-72 Soviet tank T-72 model front view camouflage coloring Copyright: xZoonar.com/mrivsergx 10471909

Marine Corps infantry and M60A1 tanks that make up Company B, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines, (Battalion Landing Team 1/3), 3rd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force (FMF), undergo a week long training exercise at the Zambolies Training Area during their Western Pacific (WESTPAC) cruise. The Marines lie prone on the ground as a tank passes over them. The tanks are actually from the 1ST Marine Division, FMF. Country: Philippines (PHL)

LAV-25 light armored vehicles are readied for offloading from an air cushioned landing vehicle (LCAC) during Cobra Gold '90, a combined Thai/U.S. exercise. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '90 State: Rayong Province Country: Thailand (THA)

DD-ST-85-01286. Country: Unknown

Russian howitzer isolated on white

220729-N-XB010-1005 EAST CHINA SEA (July 29, 2022) Lance Corporal Tyler Wilson, from Jacksonville, N.C., assigned to the 21st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), performs communication checks with his headset in a joint light tactical vehicle (JLTV) on the forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) well deck. New Orleans, part of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, along with the 31st MEU, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

Driving an M1A1 Abrams Tank

U.S. Marines with 1st Transportation Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, participate in a casualty drill for experimentation of Autonomous Casualty Evacuation (ACE) technology during Battalion Field exercise 1-23 on Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 19, 2022. Battalion FX 1-23 is a 1st Transportation Battalion exercise integrated with Project Convergence 22, where Marines and Sailors leverage a series of joint, multi-domain engagements, integrating artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomy to enhance warfighting capabilities and accelerate decision-making timelines.

An old Soviet Armored troop-carrier

981012-M-3661W-001. Subject Operation/Series: DYNAMIC MIX '98 Country: Turkey (TUR)

Close-up of a tank, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, US Army

Scale model of russian tank

An M-109A1 155mm self-propelled howitzer is parked on the flight line prior being loaded aboard a YC-15 aircraft during a heavy loading test. Base: Yuma State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Light air defence system with weapon carrier OZELOT of the German Armed Forces, Bueckeburg Army Airfield, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Artwork: "Up and Down Range" Artist: SSGT Roger W. Price Catalog Number: 10.7.90 U.S. Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown

Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen)WWII tank abandoned in the forest. Panzerwrack (M47 Patton Tank).

990419-M-3368I-013. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Uss Anchorage (LSD 36) State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Calgary, Alberta - January 30, 2022: View of an old Soviet T-34 at the Calgary Military Museum.

Russia, Saint Petersburg, Kronverksky Island, Artillery Museum, exterior, tanks

Melilla, November 1987. Legion training maneuvers. In the image, three BMR armored vehicles, with legionaries on board, return to their barracks in Melilla. Behind, the Cañada de la Muerte, a Muslim "ghetto" in territory of Spanish sovereignty.

Marines wait for the arrival of President and Mrs. George Bush. The president and his wife are paying Thanksgiving Day visits to U.S. troops who are in Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield. In the background are an LAV-25 light armored vehicle and an M-6 tank. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

An M88A1 armored recovery vehicle is secured to a railcar at the rail marshaling area during SEDRE. Subject Operation/Series: SEA EMERGENCY DEPLOYMENT READINESS EXERCISE Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An Iraqi T-55 main battle tank destroyed during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Iraq(IRQ)

A U.S. Army M109A6 Paladin 155mm howitzer with the Ellenwood-based Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 214th Field Artillery, 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard, observes fired artillery observation rounds during Exercise African Lion 21, at the Tan Tan Training Area, Morocco, June 13, 2021. African Lion is U.S. Africa Commands largest, premier, Joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal, 7-18 June. More than 7,000 participants from nine nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces. AL21 is a multi-domain, multi-component, and multi-national exercise, which employs a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants.

DA-SC-85-11319. Base: Fort Benning State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

M1A2 Abrams assigned to 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division lineup before a demonstration at the Abrams Operation Summit at Bucierz Range, Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, April 25, 2022. The 1st Infantry Division is among other units assigned to V Corps, America's forward-deployed corps in Europe that works alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide command-and-control for rotational and set units in the European theater.

Tank, military and helicopter with fire in explosion for service, army duty and conflict in city. Target, apocalypse and airforce with bombs for armed forces, defense and warfare in battlefield

030220-M-8539K-002. Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Marine Division

STS-99 Mission Specialist Mamoru Mohri, who is with the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japan, practices driving an armored personnel carrier under the watchful eye of Capt. George Hoggard (riding on the front), trainer with the KSC Fire Department. The vehicle is part of emergency egress training during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities and could be used by the crew in the event of an emergency at the pad during which the crew must make a quick exit from the area. Riding in the rear of the carrier are Mission Specialists Gerhard Thiele (center), Janice Voss (Ph.D.), and Commander Kevin Kregel. TCDT provides the crew with simulated countdown exercises, emergency egress training, and opportunities to inspect the mission payloads in the orbiter's payload bay. STS-99 is the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which will chart a new course, using two antennae and a 200-foot-long section of space station-derived mast protruding from the payload bay to produc

DM-ST-85-09136. Base: Wilmington State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

World war two german military tank, Greece

The Commander-in-Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, in a Crusader tank of 42nd Armoured Division during a large-scale exercise near Malton in Yorkshire, 29 September 1942. The Commander in Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, with the Division Commander, Major General M C Dempsey, DSO, MC, watching the exercise from a Crusader tank.

Col. Stephen Capehart, commander of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division speaks during the transfer of authority ceremony between the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division and the 3/4th ABCT, Zagan, Poland, June 23, 2022. The 3/4th ABCT is among other units assigned to V Corps, Americas forward deployed corps in Europe that works alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces.

Comparison of two specialized armored vehicles, the German SturmTiger and the British A39 Tortoise.

An Australian Army Leopard AS 1 main battle tank from B Squadron, 1ST Armoured Regiment, rolls along a road during the joint Australian/U.S. exercise Kangaroo '89. Subject Operation/Series: KANGAROO '89 State: Northern Territory Country: Australia (AUS)

The Piana delle Orme Museum is a park-museum with 50,000 exhibits from the reclamation of the Agro Pontino to the Landing of Anzio WWII. Strada Migliara 43 1/2 Latina Italy

Two old tank in front of ruined brick building

DM-ST-88-08130. Subject Operation/Series: COLD WINTER Country: Norway (NOR)

DA-ST-87-08570. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The US base Point Alpha east of Fulda on the border with the former GDR was described as a hot place in the Cold War, it was one of four US observation points on the inner German border, today a memorial and memorial, with relics from the Cold War period such as the US tank on the grounds of the memorial and memorial, Hesse, Rhön, Rasdorf, Geisa

Armenia, Yerevan. Soviet-era Mother Armenia statue and tanks.

Scale model of russian tank

Wheels to support the armored personnel carrier BTR-MD "Rakushka"

DF-ST-86-07711. Base: Alexandria Country: Egypt (EGY)

Scale model of russian tank

heavy armored vehicle Tank tracks and steel wheels huge green panzer Copyright: xZoonar.com/IVASHUTINx 10097251

Members of the 24th Infantry Division pass by an M-1 Abrams Tank that has been loaded onto a railcar in preparation of DEPEX 96. Subject Operation/Series: DEPEX 96 Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Skysweeper , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

020112-F-5872L-004. Subject Operation/Series: COPE TIGER 2002 Base: Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base Country: Thailand (THA)

Soviet T-28 and T-35 multi-turreted tanks used by the Red Army during World War II.

Monument to tank in Tiraspol, Transnistria Tiraspol, Moldova 06.09.2021. Monument to tank in Tiraspol, Transnistria or Moldova, on a sunny summer day Copyright: xZoonar.com/Multipediax 17581295

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American tank in the Omaha Beach Museum, France, Normandy December 24, 2022

Armenia, Yerevan. Soviet-era Mother Armenia statue and tanks.

STS-88 Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow (right) operates an M-113, an armored personnel carrier, as part of emergency egress training under the watchful eye of instructor George Hoggard during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities. The TCDT also provides the crew with simulated countdown exercises and opportunities to inspect their mission payloads in the orbiter's payload bay. Mission STS-88 is targeted for launch on Dec. 3, 1998. It is the first U.S. flight for the assembly of the International Space Station and will carry the Unity connecting module. Others in the STS-88 crew are Mission Commander Robert D. Cabana and Mission Specialists Nancy J. Currie, Jerry L. Ross, James H. Newman, and Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut

DA-SC-87-04267. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '86 Base: Bremerhaven Country: West Germany (FRG)

Lieutenant General Mark P. Hertling, commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe, is guided by Director of the Zvi Meitar Institute for Land Warfare Studies, Gideon Avidor, on a tour of the Latroun Museum and grounds in Latroun, Israel, on August 10, 2011. Lieutenant Hertling met with his Israeli Defense Forces counterpart, Major General Sami Turgeman, to discuss training cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli militaries earlier in the day.

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Extended-Range Anti-armor Munition (ERAM) warhead fires self-forging fragment into an M-48 full-tracked combat tank target during a validation demonstration test. Base: Otis Air National Guard Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030419-M-5607A-060. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, 13th Marine Expeditionary Force, transport a Mine Clearing Line Charge using an Amphibious Combat Vehicle on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, June 9, 2022. The 13th MEU is currently conducting Realistic Urban Training exercise to enhance the integration and collective capability of the MEU's command, air, ground, and logistics elements and prepare the 13th MEU to meet the nation's crisis response needs during their upcoming overseas deployment.

A scene of Equipment Park is shown with fall colors Oct. 3, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Equipment Park is inside the installations historic Commemorative Area. The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation. The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers. The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoys unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942.

Teenagers on Second World War Sherman tank as monument near Utah Beach, Normandy, France, Europe

U.S. Army Col. Stephen Capeheart, commander of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division speaks to those in attendance at the transfer of authority ceremony at Zagan, Poland, June 23, 2022. This ceremony marked the end of an 11-month rotation for the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Soldiers, and the beginning of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Divisions rotation.

A D-7 Counter Mine Vehicle clears a street of the MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) facility during LOE 1 (Limited Objective Experiment 1). Urban Warrior is the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's series of limited objective experiments examining new urban tactics and experimental technologies. Subject Operation/Series: URBAN WARRIOR Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Troops from the Australian Army's 1ST Field Regiment, 4th Field Battery, aim a 105mm towed Howitzer M119A1 down range in the Shoalwater Training Area, Queensland, Australia in support of exercise Crocodile '99. Subject Operation/Series: CROCODILE '99 Base: Shoalwater Bay Training Area State: Queensland Country: Australia (AUS)

Consequences of the armed conflict in Georgia, South Ossetia. Destroyed buildings and equipment. South Ossetia, Georgia - August 22, 2008: Consequences of the armed conflict in Georgia, South Ossetia. Destroyed buildings and equipment. Copyright: xZoonar.com/DmitryixBogdanovx 21347108

Marines ride along the parade in an LAV-25 light assault vehicle during the National Victory Celebration parade. The day-long celebration is being held in honor of the coalition forces that liberated Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia(DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

USMC, M1A1 Main Battle Tanks (MBT) assigned to the 1ST Tank Battalion, 29 Palms, CA prepare to fire at designated targets on the Egyptian firing range, at Mubarak Military City, as US, Spanish and Egyptian armed forces conduct amphibious assault operations during Exercise BRIGHT STAR 01/02. BRIGHT STAR 01/02 is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that enhances regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the forces needed to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR 01/02 Base: Mubarak Military City Country: Egypt (EGY)

England,Dorset,Bovington,The Tank Museum

Sherman tank memorial to the American service men who lost their lives during Exercise Tiger 1944, Slapton Sands, South Devon.

Tank in Veteran's Day Parade, St. Louis, Missouri

GEN Gordon R. Sullivan, vice chief of staff of the Army, stands in front of an M-4 Sherman tank as he poses for a photograph with MGEN Thomas C. Foley, commanding officer of the United States Army Armor Center, during a tour. Base: Fort Knox State: Kentucky (KY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Three abandoned Somali (US Manufactured) M47 Tanks sit destroyed amongst some trees near a warehouse. The US Army's 10th Mountain Division (not shown) stumbled across the abandoned tank. This mission is in support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Port Of Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Military History Museum of the German Armed Forces in Dresden, tanks on the outdoor grounds next to the main arsenal, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Destroyed military equipment of Russia

DA-SC-90-05859. Country: Unknown

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Madrid, 11/05/2021. International Defense and Security Fair (Feindef). Photo: of Saint Bernard. Archdc.

Military illustrations of soldiers, and different weapons

National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War 1941 to 1945.

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