Blade looked after them and saw four large army trucks and two tank transporters parked by the curb.
A tank transporter is a specialized road vehicle for the transport of tanks, to and from the battlefield or during peacetime.
Since there were few tank transporters or railways in the desert, the tanks had to travel long distances on their tracks causing further wear.
A few minutes later they pulled aside and stopped while the long, heavy form of a tank transporter rumbled by them, going in the opposite direction.
The back bumper was buckled where the tank transporter had struck it.
Where well maintained roads allow it, wheeled tank transporters can be used.
These were spe- cialized tank transporters, which would ferry them farther up the cliff-lined valley.
There were reports of their best equipment, the Russian T-72, being pushed south on tank transporters along the north-south axis.
The Commander was introduced as a tank transporter in 1978.
The DW12A was used as a tank transporter by the French army.