Medium Mark D was a British medium tank developed at the end of the First World War. It was envisaged as a vehicle to be used in "Plan 1919" an offensive...
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The Medium Mark C Hornet was a British medium tank developed during the First World War, but produced too late to see any fighting. In 1917 Sir William...
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The Medium Mark A Whippet was a medium tank employed by the British in World War I. Intended for fast mobile assaults, it was intended to complement the...
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Vickers Medium Mark II was a British medium tank built by Vickers during the interwar period of the First and Second World Wars. The Medium Mark II, derived...
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tank design but this was all spent on the failed development of the Medium Mark D. When the government design bureau, the Tank Design Department, was...
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The Medium Mark III was a medium tank developed by the United Kingdom during the Interwar period. The prototypes of the Medium Mark II were the three...
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tank development since 1918. Early designs after the war included the Medium Mark D, including variants such as an amphibious tank capable of 25 mph (40 km/h)...
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countries. The first tanks to carry the name "Medium" appeared in the First World War with the British Medium Mark A Whippet. It was smaller, lighter and faster...
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Although it is often assumed that heavy tanks suffered inferior mobility to medium tanks, this was not always the case, as many of the more sophisticated heavy...
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The T-28 was a Soviet multi-turreted medium tank. The prototype was completed in 1931, and production began in late 1932. It was an infantry support tank...
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Tanks of the United States (redirect from T1 medium)
crewed medium tanks, losing most of their number while inflicting only minor damage on the T-34 units. The medium tank M3 replaced the M2 medium tank and...
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Cruiser Mk III (redirect from A13 Mark I)
Cruiser, Mk III, also known by its General Staff specification number A13 Mark I, was a British cruiser tank of the Second World War. It was the first British...
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(resulting in a considerably heavier tank), and Panthers were considered medium tanks despite being of similar mass and volume to contemporary heavy tanks...
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Tanks in the British Army (section D-Day)
supported the infantry and the faster Whippet Medium Mark A and its successors the Medium Mark B and Medium Mark C. During the interbellum British tank experiments...
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formations of the British army were mostly equipped with the Vickers Medium Tank Mk I and Medium Mk II, which were judged obsolete by the 1930s; most of the vehicles...
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as distinguished from infantry tanks. Cruiser tanks were developed after medium tank designs of the 1930s failed to satisfy the Royal Armoured Corps. The...
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However, this conflict would be instrumental in developing the famous T-34 medium tank. Germany's armored Panzer force was not especially impressive at the...
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final model, but its side-on profile was more like that of the British Medium Mark D, including the snake track-system, with the drive wheel higher than...
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tonnes or 13 short tons). It was renamed as the Medium Mark I in 1924 as the earlier heavy and medium tanks went out of service and lighter tanks – 5...
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Design based on Carden-Loyd Light Tank. Medium Tank A/T 1 - amphibious tank, experimental Vickers Medium Mark C & D - intended for export, prototypes sold...
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and armored medium tanks. When the war began in June 1950, the four American infantry divisions on occupation duty in Japan had no medium tanks at all...
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use the same track suspension system that had been developed for the Medium Mark D. The M1922 was initially the second tank in an order for two M1921s...
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Vickers 6-ton (redirect from Vickers Mark E)
Finland, Portugal, China and Bulgaria. Thailand purchased 36 Vickers Medium Dragon Mark IVs, and QF 2-pounder naval guns were added to turn them into self-propelled...
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hull, project cancelled in 1917 Mark VII † Mark X * Medium Mark A Whippet Medium Mark B Medium Mark C ‡ Medium Mark D † – intended to be a relatively...
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Tanks in the Italian Army (section Medium tanks)
medium tank of 1939. The Italian definitions of light, medium and heavy tank differ from other nations at the time. For instance the Italian "medium"...
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vulnerable than medium tanks. In addition, the poor terrain and roads common to the theatre were unsuitable for the much heavier M4 medium tanks, and so...
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the Soviet Union. The Panzer II was supplanted by the Panzer III and IV medium tanks by 1940/1941. By the end of 1942, it had been largely removed from...
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January 2022. Ellis, Chris; Chamberlain, Peter Chamberlain (1972). Medium Tanks Marks A to D. AFV/weapons. Windsor: Profile Publications. OCLC 220833240. Kliment...
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remained passive. Almost all production effort was thus concentrated into the Mark I and its direct successors, all very similar in shape. In France, on the...
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