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The British use different names; in the US, the front of a tank is called the bow, the body is called a hull, the cannon is called the main gun, the tool boxes along the sides are called sponson boxes, the armor plating covering the rear of the engine is called the back deck, the turret is called the turret, and if theres a small turret atop the main turret it's called the cupola.

The bow, sponson boxes, turret, hatches (doors), hull, are naval terms. Reason? Because the original designers of the "tank" were British Naval Architects. And the original name of tanks in 1915 was LANDSHIPS.

Sometimes, more often in the past (read 20th century), the left and right of a tank was sometimes called the "port (left) and starboard (right)" and the rear of a tank was sometimes called the "stern"; again, those were naval terms.

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