Tank

A tank is a large, heavily armoured fighting vehicle with tracks and a large tank gun that is designed for front-line combat. Modern tanks are mobile land weapon platforms, mounting a large-calibre cannon in a rotating gun turret. They combine this with heavy vehicle armour which provides protection for the crew, the vehicle's weapons, and its propulsion systems, and operational mobility, due to its use of tracks rather than wheels, which allows the tank to move over rugged terrain and be positioned on the battlefield in advantageous locations. These features enable the tank to perform well in a tactical situation: the combination of powerful weapons fire from their tank gun and their ability to resist enemy fire means the tank can take hold of and control an area and prevent other enemy vehicles from advancing. In both offensive and defensive roles, they are powerful units able to perform key primary tasks required of armoured units on the battlefield. The modern tank was the result of a century of development from the first primitive armoured vehicles, due to improvements in technology such as the internal combustion engine, which allowed the rapid movement of heavy armoured vehicles. As a result of these advances, tanks underwent tremendous shifts in capability during the World Wars of the 20th century.

Tank (gaming)

A tank (also known as a meat shield) is a style of character in gaming, often associated with a character class. A common convention in real-time strategy games, role-playing games, fighting games, multiplayer online battle arenas and MUDs, tanks redirect enemy attacks or attention toward themselves in order to protect other characters or units. Since this role often requires them to suffer large amounts of damage, they rely on large amounts of vitality or armor, healing by other party members, evasiveness and misdirection, or self regeneration.

Tanks are often represented as large or heavily armored.

Role in games

"Tanking" occurs when the unit is intended to be the one taking damage (typically by being dangerous or detrimental, or using a game mechanic that forces it to be targeted), and secondly, to ensure that they can survive this damage through sheer health points or mitigation.

In real-time strategy games the role of a tank unit is to provide a health buffer for weaker ranged classes. Frequently maneuvering or other tactics are used by the tank to make themselves the most tempting or highest-priority target of enemy attacks, thereby diverting enemy attacks away from allies. Many basic strategies in games such as StarCraft and Warcraft III revolve around learning to micro-manage units so they attack tanks first so that the tanks do not continually attack units.

Tank (disambiguation)

A tank is an armoured combat vehicle. The other common meaning is a storage tank, a container, usually for liquids.

Tank may also refer to:

People

  • Tank (nickname)
  • Tank Carder (born 1989), American football player
  • Tank Palamara, stage name of Italian rock guitarist Tancredi Palamara (born 1968)
  • Kurt Tank (1898–1983), German aerospace engineer and test pilot
  • Manisha Tank, CNN International presenter
  • Walter Tank, American politician
  • Tanche (family) or Tank, in Denmark and Norway
  • Taunk or Tank, a Rajput clan of India
  • Places

  • Tank, Pakistan, capital city of Tank District
  • Tank District, Pakistan
  • Tank Mountains, Arizona, United States
  • Tank Pond, a lake in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Tank Stream, New South Wales, Australia
  • Another name for Dağdöşü, Azerbaijan
  • Another name for Bandar-e Tang, Iran
  • Arts and entertainment

    Music

  • Tank (band), a British heavy metal band
  • Tank (vocalist), otherwise known as Eric Geisenheyner
  • Tank (American singer), American R&B singer
  • Tank (Taiwanese singer), pop singer/songwriter from Taiwan
  • Podcasts:

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Too Tired To Wait For Love

    by: Tank

    I'm sick and tired of listening to your habitual lying I didn't understand it 'cause it's just bad timing I try to tell her but she won't keep still she'll never know it but she always will I can't tell you what she's thinking of one thing's for certain and it won't be love Too tired to wait for love, too tired to wait for love, too tired to wait for love She be-littles her lovers and for no good reason Is there anything left that she could still believe in She'll be the one that's gonna break your heart You'll never know it till it falls apart Too tired to wait for love, too tired to wait for love, too tired to wait for love She seems to think that I'm ill, sick in the mind But does the blind lead the blind I must be careful So I don't seem unkind you betcha! Too tired to wait for love, too tired to wait for love, too tired to wait for love




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