On watercraft, a sponson is a projection that extends outward (usually from the hull, but sometimes other parts of the vessel) to improve stability while floating, or to act as a securing point for other equipment.

2016年4月22日 · As far as the Mark I tanks of 1916 are concerned male sponsons, originally the only ones contemplated, came from Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. Ltd. of Newcastle upon Tyne. Female sponsons, when it was decided to make them in April 1916, were made by the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Co. in Birmingham.

2019年2月26日 · Sponsons are still found on many modern designs. Only cold war Soviet and US MBTs truly abandoned the concept. They allow for more ammo or fuel or whatever they put in there to be carried. Look at Leopard 1s, the sponsons have ammo, fuel, and radiator exhausts in …

The M2 medium tank, officially Medium Tank, M2, was a United States Army medium tank that was first produced in 1939 by the Rock Island Arsenal, just prior to the commencement of the Second World War in Europe. [3] Production was 18 M2 tanks, and 94 slightly improved M2A1 tanks, for a total of 112.

2018年11月1日 · The tanks entered service in 1916, first seeing combat 15 September 1916 at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the bloody Somme Offensive. Slow, heavy and cumbersome, the Mk.I tanks came in two variants, known as Male and Females. The males were armed with two 6-Pounder guns, 1 in each sponson which was mounted on each side of the tank.

2016年6月15日 · The basic configuration consists of five tanks, the two feed tanks, two forward sponson tanks and the right aft sponson tank. This is the standard MV-22 configuration. The CV-22 adds four...

2018年9月26日 · It was expected that this new power pack would propel the tank to about 35 mph (56 km/h) which was a substantial improvement over the 22-30 mph (35-48 km/h) top speed of the standard M4. The weight increase also necessitated changes to the tracks and suspension to support the heavier hull and keep ground pressure to an acceptable limit.

Sponsons are projections from the sides of a watercraft, for protection, stability, or the mounting of equipment such as armaments or lifeboats, etc. They extend a hull dimension at or below the waterline and serve to increase flotation or add lift when underway.

2025年2月16日 · Sponsons - The Tank Museum. In any case sponsons had to be removed from tanks every time they went anywhere by train. A tank with its sponsons on was too wide for the railway so before they could be driven onto a train the sponsons had to be unbolted and lifted off.

Sponson Tanks are projections from the sides of a vessel and they acts for protection, stability, or mounting of equipment such as armaments or lifeboats, etc. They extend a hull dimension at or below the waterline and serve to increase flotation or add lift when underway.