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A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield mobility provid
The first tank to engage in battle, the British Mark I tank (pictured in 1916) with the Solomon camouflage scheme
German tank Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B "Tiger II" (223)
A Japanese Type 10 firing.
A scale model of Leonardo da Vinci's fighting vehicle.
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, t
Tank
…by William Tritton of William Foster and Co., who designed the track plates. This was a prototype of a new design that would become the British Army's Mark I tank, the first tank used in combat in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of…
A British Mark I "male" tank near Thiepval on 25 September 1916, fitted with wire mesh to deflect grenades and the initial steering tail, shown raised. Photograph by Ernest Brooks
The Mark IV tank Lodestar III at the Belgian Royal Museum of the Army, Brussels (2005). This tank retains its original paint.
Mark II; tank no. 799 captured near Arras on 11 April 1917