British Tanks Mark Series in the World War I: The best technologies of world wars

British Tanks Mark Series in the World War I
The best technologies of world wars

Tanks appeared an attempt to break the stalemate of a positional war. Machine guns and quick-firing cannons swept the advancing infantry units clean. Neither the long-lasting artillery preparation nor the flamethrowers and chemical weapons tested by the Germans helped. It urgently required an armored combat vehicle capable of acting directly on the battlefield, suppressing the enemy's firing points, and paving the way for the infantry through wire fences.

The first attempts to create such a machine were made before the war. Many inventors from different countries wished to possess the priority in the invention of the tank. But the first to realize the idea and successfully used tanks in combat conditions the British.

English heavy tanks of the First World War had a specific shape, not repeated by anyone else, in the form of a diamond-shaped body with enclosing caterpillars. It was conditioned by the appointment of the machine: to lay the way to the infantry through wire barriers by moving through the trenches and funnels to the battlefield.

In this book, we will look at several models of the Mark series.

Content:
Introduction. History before the advent of the tank
Heavy tank Mark I (Mk I)
Heavy tanks Mk II, Mk III, and Mk IV
Heavy tanks Mk V and Mk V * (with a star)
Heavy tanks Mk VII and Mk VIII

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