Churchill's WWI
tanks? The 4000 French tanks? What do we know
about them?
Sounds like they were introduced into WWI on
about July 31, 1917.
The French brought in over 4,000 tanks ... the
most of any country
What was in the weapons they fired off?
Something worse than 2-butoxyethanol?
Bird flu came along after that
Bomb fumes in one's eyes that causes an
autoimmune system is what I think
New tanks on the horizon modeled after these,
it appears
Apparently the male tanks had
cannon like guns compared to the female
tanks which were the machine gun type
General Dynamics hopes to earn the money the
Marine's have to spend on Tanks ...
and pawning off
the wrong kind on them ... & hurt Valdez
citizens in the process?
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Ancestors of WWII tanks
The FT 17 can be, therefore, considered
the oldest WWII tank! ... The third British
tank, the male Mark IV, now materialized at two
hundred meters from the ...
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/quarters/1975/wwi_tank.htm
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| There were many names
given to different tank types, and
similar names do not assure the same
design goals. Some light tanks were
relatively slow, and some were fast.
Some heavy tanks had large-calibre
low-velocity guns for engaging infantry
and bunkers, and some had high-velocity
antitank guns. |
medium tank Mk B
WWI tank types
Tank classification - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
WWII tanks were generally classified by weight
and role: fast, ... 'male', 'female' (referring
to armament; male tanks were armed with cannon
while female ...
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| In WWI the first tank,
the Mark I, was designed for supporting
infantry by crossing trenches and
attacking machine gun posts. Initially,
there were two types with two roles. The
'males' armed with artillery guns, and
'females' armed solely with machine guns
to protect the 'males' from infantry.
The tanks that followed were described
relative to it, including light, medium,
and super-heavy tanks. For example, the
light tank FT-17 (weight approximately 7
t / 15,000 lb.) and the medium Medium
Mark A 'Whippet' (14 t/ 31,360 lb.). By
the end of the war, the Mark I (~30 t/
56-60,000 lb.) could be classified as a
medium tank, and the Whippet as a light
tank. Super-heavy breakthrough tanks
such as the Char 2C (69 t/ 158,000 lb.)
or the K-Wagen (120 t) were nearly
completed before the war ended. In
comparison, the current British MBT, the
Challenger 2, weighs some 60 t (137,500
lb). |
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