There have been many tanks made since they first were used in WW1, some have been bad in the way that they used Circuit Breakers and electrical components and others have just been terrible in general.
The tank was first used in 1916 by the British as a means to try and stop the dreadlock that was the trench warfare. When the tank was in development the British lied and said that they were mobile water tanks which is why people now call them tanks.
Here are just a few of the tanks that we have seen since the Battle of Somme.
Well it would be a great shame not to kick it all off with the WW1 tanks so that is where I am going to begin.
The “Mother” or Mark I was designed by Britain in the middle of WW1. However the D1 was actually the first tank to ever be used in an actual battle. Flers-Courcellette was actually the first time the tank was seen but more famously was the Somme which is why it is sometimes used as the tanks first battle.
The main problems with the tanks in WW1 are that they were simply not up to the challenge of fighting a war in the harsh, muddy conditions. The problem with these tanks was that they were always getting stuck in the middle of a battle. Germany only actually made 15 tanks during the course of WW1 and the first tank versus tank battle occurred in 1918 when three British Mark IVs ran into German A7Vs. The British prevailed but both encountered some serious problems.
So although none of these tanks had mil spec cables within them they still proved to be feared in the battlefield and without a doubt they at least made a small impact on the war effort.
Part two of this in depth feature will go into a lot of details about WW2 and how tanks made a huge impact on how we saw war.
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