Tank Warfare (1)
There have been many tanks made since they first were used in WW1, some have been bad in the way that they used Deutsch connectors and electrical components and others have just been terrible in general.
1916 saw the year in which the tank was first seen and the British were trying to use it to stop the deadlock that trench warfare had brought. 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.
These are just a few of the many tanks we have seen since that famous 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 first tank known simply as the Mark I Tank or “Mother” was designed by William Ashbee Tritton and Walter Gordon Wilson. 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 problem with the tanks in WW1 is that they were just not suitable for the muddy conditions of the trenches. There were countless times of the tanks getting stuck and they rarely made much of a difference to the 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. Although the British beat the Germans in this case, both of the sides has actually encountered some real serious issues.
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.
In part two WW2 will be discussed in detail as the way that tanks were seen was changed for ever and the way the world fought battles was also shifted.
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