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On 23 April 1972, tankers of the 20th Tank Regiment were attacked by a PAVN infantry-tank team, which was equipped with the new 9M14M Malyutka (NATO designation: Sagger) wire-guided anti-tank missile.
29 lis 2020 · ARVN troops and an M48A3 eight miles west of Dong Ha watch smoke billow skywards as a B-52 air strike hit a NVA tank column attacking their position on 11 April 1972. The air strike knocked out 27 NVA tanks, 3 artillery pieces, and wiped out about 100 enemy troops.
25 gru 2023 · In March 1965, the first M48 tanks arrived in Vietnam to aid the Marine Corps. They faced booby traps, dense jungles, and guerilla warfare.
Occurring near the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border, four M48s from Company B, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor, supporting a 5th Special Forces Group camp, clashed with several NVA PT-76 tanks and a number of BTR-50 armored personnel carriers in a night battle.
18 lis 2014 · U.S. Marines riding atop an M-48 tank, firing. Vietnam War, April 3, 1968. In Pakistani service. US-built M47 and M48 formed the bulk of the Pakistani 1st armored division by the eve of the 1965 Indo-Pak war. They crossed the marshy area of the Rann of Kutch and surprised Indian forces.
On the night of March 3, 1969, this unit was involved in one of the few clashes between U.S. and North Vietnamese tanks, when the NVA 202nd Armored Regiment, trying to attack the Ben Het Special Forces camp, lost two PT-76 tanks.
M48 Patton. Wbrew wszelkim trudnościom armia Stanów Zjednoczonych zdecydowała się jednak wprowadzić czołg do swojego uzbrojenia, nadając mu w kwietniu 1953 roku oznaczenie 90 mm Gun Tank M48 i nazwę Patton 48.
