flail tank
English
Sherman Crab tank, a flail tank
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Matilda Scorpion tank, a flail tank
Noun
flail tank (plural flail tanks)
- a type of armored tracked fighting vehicle with a motorized spinning drum with the longitudinal axis of the drum arranged horizontally, perpendicular to the motion of the tank, with flail chains attached to the front end, which can clear landmines and barbed wire by beating them to bits
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