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    heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War. The Mark I was the world's first tank, a...
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    The British Mark V tank was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank. The tank was improved in several aspects over the Mark IV, chiefly the new steering...
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    Mark IV (pronounced Mark four) was a British tank of the First World War. Introduced in 1917, it benefited from significant developments of the Mark I...
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    The Light Tank Mark I to Mark V were a series of related designs of light tank produced by Vickers for the British Army during the interwar period. Between...
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    counterpart to the first British infantry tank, the machine gun armed, two-man A11 Infantry Tank Mark I. The Mark I was also known as Matilda, and the larger...
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    Medium Mark I was a British tank of the Inter-war period built by Vickers from 1924. After the First World War Britain disbanded most of its tank units...
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    The cruiser tank (sometimes called cavalry tank or fast tank) was a British tank concept of the interwar period for tanks designed as modernised armoured...
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    August and September 1915. The prototype of a new design that became the Mark I tank was demonstrated to the British Army on 2 February 1916. Although initially...
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    The Mark VIII tank also known as the Liberty or The International was a British-American tank design of the First World War intended to overcome the limitations...
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    using parts of the Tank Mark I. Greg began work on a design with Major Walter Wilson, an inventor who had worked on the Tank Mark I, on 7 March. At first...
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    German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the...
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    Mark VI was a British heavy tank project from the First World War. After having made plans for the continued development of the Mark I into the Mark IV...
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    The Tank, Infantry, Mk I, Matilda I (A11) is a British infantry tank of the Second World War. Despite being slow, cramped and armed with only a single...
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    cooperate with tanks. The first use of the British tanks on the battlefield was the use of 49 Mark I tanks during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September...
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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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    the Mark VI was identical in all but a few respects. The turret, which had been expanded in the Mk V to allow a three-man crew to operate the tank, was...
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    fitted with flame-throwers. The tanks, a mix of Mark I with hull howitzers, Mark II (three with flamethrowers) and Mark III (some with Bobbin), were expected...
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  • ended. Comparison of early World War II tanks History of the tank a shortened version of the gun used in the Mark I. The reduction in muzzle velocity was...
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    Mark I tanks entered service in 1941 and though manoeuvrable, they were relatively lightly armoured and under-armed. The following Crusader Mark II had...
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    The British Mark V Composite tank, a development of the Tank Mark I saw service with the Estonian Army in the Estonian War of Independence from 1919 to...
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    British Mark I tank Flotilla leader tank * "Flying Elephant" * - project for a 100-ton well-armoured tank, not built. Foster battletank * Kupchak tank * No...
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    Medium Mark I, was developed to replace the last of the Medium Mark Cs still in use. Production and rebuilding ran from 1925 until 1934. The tank was phased...
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    The Tank, Cruiser, Mk I (A9) was a British cruiser tank of the interwar period. It was the first cruiser tank: a fast tank designed to bypass the main...
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    tank. They would be sick and suffer from severe headaches. In the summer of 1917, at the same time as another 'carrier' tank, the Gun Carrier Mark I,...
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    consensus was forming on tank doctrine and design. The tank was invented by the British, in 1916, and first used during World War I, with nearly simultaneous...
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    The FV 214 Conqueror, also known as Tank, Heavy No. 1, 120 mm Gun, Conqueror was a British heavy tank of the post-World War II era. It was developed as...
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    Panzer I was a light tank produced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Its name is short for Panzerkampfwagen I (German for "armored fighting vehicle mark I"),...
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    A heavy tank is a tank variant produced from World War I to the end of the Cold War. These tanks generally sacrificed mobility and maneuverability for...
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    has produced tanks since their inception in World War I, up until the present day. While there were several American experiments in tank design, the first...
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    Infantry Tank Mk I, was the first Infantry tank (I tank) and the first practical expression of the decision to split design into I tanks and cruiser tanks, with...
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