panzer

panssarivaunu A tank, especially a German one of World War II.
puhekieltä Of or relating to the armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II.
Al Williams (1940), Airpower, New York: Coward-McCann.

A Panzer division is composed of 12,000 to 14,000 men, with 3,150 motorized vehicles of all descriptions, ranging from tanks to antitank guns, antiaircraft batteries, motorized supply units transporting food, . . .