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The Sturmpanzerwagen A7V was a heavy tank introduced by Germany in 1918 during World War I. One hundred chassis were ordered in early 1917, ten to be finished as fighting vehicles with armoured bodies
Sole surviving A7V ("Mephisto") on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
5.7-cm Maxim-Nordenfelt gun from A7V "Schnuck", at the Imperial War Museum, Manchester, UK
In rough terrain
A7V tank at Roye in France on 21 March 1918
5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt
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The 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" was a fortress gun and infantry gun developed during the 1880s in Britain which was sold to Belgium and later produced under license by the Cockerill
A7V
…main gunner and loader). A7Vs often went into action with as many as 25 men on board. The A7V was armed with six 7.92 mm MG08 machine guns and a 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt cannon mounted at the front. Some of these cannons were of British manufacture and had been captured in Belgium early in the war; others were captured in…
A captured 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfeldt gun being inspected.
A captured German 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt gun with destroyed shield. Meaulte-Albert Road after the Battle of the Somme.
Captured guns in a depot.
A Belgian casemate gun recaptured by American troops.