---
title: "We’re collecting the very best tank names you’ve ever seen"
date: "2020-04-28"
modified: "2020-04-28"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/tank-names-3/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Mandatory Fun"
  - "Tanks"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "Vehicles"
tags:
  - "announcements"
---

# We’re collecting the very best tank names you’ve ever seen

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1038065-3.jpg>)

Did you ever crew a tank during your time in the U.S. armed forces? Did you ever name that tank? If the answer to both of these questions was 'yes,' then we have an important mission for you.

Here at Task & Purpose, we love a deliciously funny name for a piece of military might, from [Chuck Norris](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/chuck-norris-m1-abrams-tank/>) and fictional [Baby Yoda](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/baby-yoda-army-m1-abrams-tank/>) to [crippling depression](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-tank-named-crippling-depression/>) and '[dropped as a baby](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-tank-crew-name/>).' And to bolster our collection of truly excellent tank names, we need your help.

If you happen to have photo evidence of a remarkably-named tank in your possession, we'd love for you to share it with us [either on Twitter](<https://twitter.com/jaredbkeller/status/1255227441427165186>) or by email at jared@taskandpurpose.com.

If you're so inclined, feel free to share the story of how you named your tank as well. We'd love to include your submissions in a larger list of spectacular tank names.

I'll just say this ahead of time: tanks for the laughs.

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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