tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engin ...

is an armoured combat vehicle. Tank or tanking may also refer to:

Geographical names

Oceania

Tank Stream The Tank Stream is a heritage-listed former fresh water tributary of Sydney Cove and now tunnel and watercourse located in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The Ta ...

, New South Wales, Australia

Asia

Tank (city) Tank ( ps, ټانک / ټاک; ur, ; skr, ) is the capital city of Tank District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The city is located northwest of Dera Ismail Khan, and southeast of Jandola, Tank Subdivision (formerly known as "Frontier Region Tan ...

, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan **

Tank District Tank District ( ps, ټانک ولسوالۍ, ur, '; skr, ') is a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The city of Tank is the capital of the district, which consists of Union Council City I and U ...

, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan **

Tank Tehsil Tank ( ur, ) is a tehsil located in Tank District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Geography Tank Tehsil has an area of 1,679 km2. Adjacent tehsils *Frontier Region Tank, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (north) *Lakki Marwat Tehsil, Lakki ...

, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *

Tank Subdivision Tank Subdivision formerly Frontier Region Tank is a subdivision in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The region is named after Tank District which lies to the south-east and also borders South Waziristan to the north, south and west and ...

, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Bandar-e Tang, also known as Tank, village in Iran

North America

Tank Mountains The Tank Mountains (Yavapai: Hakimatava) are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona; the range is part of the southeastern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The Tank Mountains are east–west trending and about lo ...

, Arizona, United States * Tank Pond, body of water in Nova Scotia, Canada * Tanks Peak, Colorado, United States

People

Surname

* Tank (surname), or Taunk, a surname of India * Jennifer Tank, American ecologist *

Kurt Tank Kurt Waldemar Tank (24 February 1898 – 5 June 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of ...

(1898–1983), German aerospace engineer and test pilot *

Manisha Tank According to Hindu mythology, Manisha is the Hindu goddess of the enterity. When used in this context, it symbolizes intelligence and desire. In Sanskrit, the word 'Manisha' means decisive wisdom or determinate knowledge. Such knowledge is r ...

(born 1976), CNN International presenter * Walter Tank (1897–1978), American politician

Stage name

Tank (American singer) Artaze Babbs (born January 1, 1976), better known by his stage name Tank, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, producer and actor. He is known for the singles "Maybe I Deserve" (2001), " Please Don't Go" (2007), and " When We" (2017). Accord ...

, American R&B singer Durrell Babbs (born 1976) * Tank (German singer), Eric Geisenheyner (born 1977) *

Tank (Taiwanese singer) Lü Jianzhong 呂建中 (born 6 February 1982), better known by his stage name Tank, is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. He is currently signed to HIM International Music. His debut album, ''Fighting'' (; ''Fighting, The Law of Surviving'') was ...

, singer/songwriter Lü Jianzhong (born 1982) * Tank Palamara (born 1968), Italian rock guitarist Tancredi Palamara

Other people

* Tank (nickname) * Tank Man, Chinese man arrested for standing in front of Chinese tanks * Tank or Tanche (family), in Denmark and Norway

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Tank (gaming) A tank or meat shield is a character class commonly seen in co-op video games such as real-time strategy games, role-playing games, fighting games, multiplayer online battle arenas and MUDs. Tank characters deliberately attract enemy attention ...

, a role in video games, often a character designed to withstand damage *

Tank (Gobots) This is an alphabetical list of GoBots characters with information on their appearances, fictional biographies and histories. Bad Boy Bad Boy is one of Cy-Kill's minions. He is a rough street punk always ready with an insult and looking for a ...

, a character from the ''Gobots'' toy line * Tank (''The Matrix''), a minor character from ''The Matrix'' * Michael "Tank" Ellis, a character in the Canadian-American television series ''

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future ''Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'' is a science fiction-action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian and American syndication. A toy line was ...

'' * Tank, the title character of the comic strip ''

Tank McNamara ''Tank McNamara'' is a daily syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Hinds. The strip debuted on August 5, 1974, with Jeff Millar as writer and Hinds as illustrator. Hinds took over writing after the death of Millar in late Novemb ...

'' * "The Tank", a character from the ''

Left 4 Dead ''Left 4 Dead'' is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Valve South and published by Valve. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in November 2008 and for Mac OS X in October 2010, and is the first title in the ...

'' video game series

Music

Groups

Tank (band) Tank (stylized as TANK) is the name of two British heavy metal bands, both of which stem from a band formed in 1980 by Algy Ward, a former member of The Damned. The original band is known as part of the new wave of British heavy metal moveme ...

, British heavy metal band

Albums

* ''Tank'' (album), by Asian Dub Foundation * '' Kreidler Tank'', by Kreidler

Songs

* "Tank" (song), an instrumental by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on their 1970 eponymous album * "

Tank! The '' Cowboy Bebop'' anime series was accompanied by a number of soundtrack albums composed by Yoko Kanno and Seatbelts, a diverse band Kanno formed to create the music for the series, with a principal focus in jazz. The soundtrack was released in ...

", the opening song for the anime series ''Cowboy Bebop'' * "Tank" (Nmixx song), a song by South Korean girl group NMIXX * "Tank", a song by The Stranglers from ''

Black and White Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. ...

Video games

* ''Tank'' (video game), a 1974 arcade game by Kee Games * '' Tank! Tank! Tank!'', a video game * ''

TNK III ''T.A.N.K.'' is a shoot 'em up arcade game developed and released by SNK in 1985, and released in North America as ''TNK III'' by Kitcorp. Versions of ''T.A.N.K.'' for home computers were released by Ocean Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore ...

'' (1984 video game), a video game that was released in Japan as "''T.A.N.K.''"

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Tank'' (film), a 1984 movie starring James Garner * ''Tank'' (magazine), a British quarterly *

The Tank (theater) The Tank is a nonprofit off-off-Broadway performance venue and producer in Manhattan, New York. The organization was founded in May 2003 by a group of young artists and has since moved several times, residing on 36th Street . The Tank presents ar ...

, performance space in Manhattan, New York

Brands and enterprises

Cartier Tank The Tank is a line of watches made by Cartier SA. It was created by Louis Cartier in 1917, and inspired by the new Renault tanks which Cartier saw in use on the Western Front. The prototype watch was presented by Cartier to General John J. Pe ...

, a watch line by Cartier *

Film Tank Film Tank is a multi-award winning film production company based in the town of Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in the United Kingdom. They work in all areas of film production, from generating and developing ideas to a full range of post production ...

, a multi-award-winning film production company in the UK * TANK (marque), a Chinese automotive marque, specialises in SUVs

Organizations

Think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmenta ...

, an organization that performs research and advocacy *

Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky The Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK) is the public transit system serving the Northern Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, located in Kenton County, Boone County and Campbell County. TANK was founded in 1973 when the privately fun ...

, a public transit company in Northern Kentucky

Storage vessels

* Tank, another word for a

gas cylinder A gas cylinder is a pressure vessel for storage and containment of gases at above atmospheric pressure. High-pressure gas cylinders are also called ''bottles''. Inside the cylinder the stored contents may be in a state of compressed gas, vapor ...

* Flexible tanks *

Fuel tank A fuel tank (also called a petrol tank or gas tank) is a safe container for flammable fluids. Though any storage tank for fuel may be so called, the term is typically applied to part of an engine system in which the fuel is stored and propel ...

, also called a "gas tank" or "petrol tank" *

Storage tank Storage tanks are containers that hold liquids, compressed gases (gas tank; or in U.S.A "pressure vessel", which is not typically labeled or regulated as a storage tank) or mediums used for the short- or long-term storage of heat or cold. The t ...

, a container, usually for liquids *

Water tank A water tank is a container for storing water. Water tanks are used to provide storage of water for use in many applications, drinking water, irrigation agriculture, fire suppression, agricultural farming, both for plants and livestock, chemi ...

, a container for storing liquid *

Pond A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Defining them to be less than in area, less than deep, and with less than 30% emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing their ecology from th ...

, specifically artificial ponds created by directing water runoff

Other uses

TANK (gene) TRAF family member-associated NF-kappa-B activator is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''TANK'' gene. Function The TRAF (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor) family of proteins associate with and transduce signals from me ...

* Tank (goddess), in ancient North Africa *

Tank (unit) A tank is an obsolete unit of mass in India approximately equal to 4.4 g (69 gr). After metrication in the mid-20th century, the unit became obsolete. In Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the tank equalled 17 1/72 grains (about 1.1 ...

, an obsolete unit of measure in India *

LC circuit An LC circuit, also called a resonant circuit, tank circuit, or tuned circuit, is an electric circuit consisting of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C, connected together. The circuit can ac ...

, also called a tank circuit *

Mitzvah tank A Mitzvah tank is a vehicle used by the Orthodox Jewish practitioners of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism as a portable "educational and outreach center" and "mini- synagogue" (or "minagogue") to reach out to non-observant and alienated Jews. Mitzvah t ...

, a large vehicle used as a portable educational and outreach center and mini-synagogue *

Tank Cottage Tank Cottage is located within Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and may be the oldest building in Wisconsin. History French-Canadian fur trader Joseph Ro ...

, Green Bay, Wisconsin, on the US National Register of Historic Places * Tank Upper Secondary School, a secondary school in Bergen, Norway *

Irrigation tank In Sri Lanka and India an irrigation tank or tank is an artificial reservoir of any size. They are part of a historic tradition of harvesting and preserving rainwater in the region. Often an embankment such as a mud bank was constructed across a sl ...

, part of a tank cascade system of naturalized water reservoirs in South Asia *

Tank car A tank car ( International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities. History Timeline The following major events occurred in t ...

, a railroad car *

Tanking (sports) Tanking in sports refers to the practice of intentionally fielding non-competitive teams to take advantage of league rules that benefit losing teams. This is a much more common practice in American sports that utilize closed leagues than in sports ...

, a strategy of sports teams intentionally fielding losing teams in order to gain benefits that pay off later *

Aerial refueling Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft a ...

, sometimes known as buddy tanking *Tanking, a method of wet rendering; see

Rendering (animal products) Rendering is a process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, usable materials. Rendering can refer to any processing of animal products into more useful materials, or, more narrowly, to the rendering of whole animal fatty tissue into pur ...