British heavy tanks of the First World War
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british-heavy-tanks-of-the-first-world-war-182-76713
title:
British heavy tanks of the First World War
text:
British 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 tracked, armed, and armoured vehicle, to enter combat. The name "tank" was initially a code name to maintain secrecy and disguise its true purpose. The tank was developed in 1915 to break the stalemate of trench warfare. It could survive the machine gun and small-arms fire in "no man's land", travel over difficult terrain, crush barbed w
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of combat tank
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_heavy_tanks_of_the_First_World_War
date created:
2005-02-03T12:44:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:14:43Z
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