The Medium Mark A Whippet was a medium tank employed by the British in World War I. Developed for fast mobile assaults, it was intended to complement the slower British heavy tanks by using its relati
Whippet Firefly of F Battalion in The Museum of the Army in Brussels (original colours)
Whippets of 3rd Battalion at Maillet-Mailly on 26 March 1918. Some, in action earlier in the day, were the first Whippets to be used. (Infantry are of the New Zealand Division.)
The fast Whippet-Mark V hybrid constructed by Johnson
The development of tanks in World War I was a response to the stalemate that developed on the Western Front. Although vehicles that incorporated the basic principles of the tank had been projected in
Medium Mark A Whippet
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A British tank destroyed in battle against the Germans at Cambrai on the Western Front, 1917
Mark 3II; tank no. 799 captured near Arras on 11 April 1917