flail tank

English

Sherman Crab tank, a flail tank

Matilda Scorpion tank, a flail tank

Etymology

From flail +‎ tank; From the flail chains attached to the rotating drum attached to the tank.

Noun

flail tank (plural flail tanks)

1. 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