Category Archives: Tank, tank combat car

Like the Mark II, the Mark III had been built just to test some new features for the expected Mark IV tank and to train the new crews in advance. (more…)...

The British Mark II was an evolution of the Mark I, but should only be used for testing purposes, a deployment at the front was initially not planned. (more…)...

The British tank Mark I was not only the first British tank but also the first operational tank of history used in a war and created a completely new type of weapon. (more…)...

Even before the completion of the first assault tank car A7V requested the chief of motoring at the Ministry of War on March 31, 1917 means for the development of a large car K model to provide. On June 28, 1917, the project was approved and ordered 10 vehicles. The requirements and dimensions of the chariot...

In the course of the development and testing of heavy armored vehicles such as the A7V, the lack of potential applications and the clumsiness of such vehicles became apparent. So it came that in the course of the year 1918 several concepts for small and maneuverable armored personnel carriers of the highest army command were...

With the successes of the light French Renault FT17 chariots, the Army High Command has come to realize that for a fast war and the exploitation of the momentum of an offensive, fast combat vehicles are much better suited than the slow and lumbering assault tanks. For this purpose, the demand for such a vehicle...

The Armored car A7V was the first and only in the German Empire mass-produced armored car, which was used at the front and serve in response to the emerging British Mark I tanks. However, the development and production came too late to be used effectively. (more…)...