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, to enter combat. The name "tank" was initially a code name to maintain secrecy and disguise its true purpose.

The FT had the largest production run of any tank of the war, with over 3700 built, more numerous than all British and German tanks combined. That this would happen was at first far from certain; some in the French army lobbied for the alternative mass production of super-heavy tanks.

This article on military tanks deals with the history and development of tanks of the British Army from their first use in the First World War, the interwar period, during the Second World War, the Cold War and modern era.

2018年9月11日 · They made up the bulk of British tanks during the First World War. These tanks came in two version – male types carried heavy guns in sponsons; females carried machine guns. The types were meant to work together, with males taking out heavy positions while females dealt with enemy infantry.

2017年4月20日 · In 1916, the British Army had started using tanks in battle in an attempt to break the deadlock of trench warfare. These large lumbering Heavy Tanks were slow and unable to exploit weaknesses in enemy lines or a breakthrough.

The British Mark I was a tracked vehicle developed by the British Army during the First World War, and the world's first combat tank. Born of the need to break the domination of trenches and machine guns over the battlefields of the Western Front, it …

2013年7月2日 · German Freikorps’s Garford-Putilov, with the distinctive skull and crossbones. The Great War (1914-1918) constituted a laboratory of deadly inventions, and among these, the tanks were the most striking.

2024年11月16日 · These first British tanks were produced in both Male and Female versions. The tanks would be updated during World War I for a total of 10 different Marks. Those first armored vehicles were actually inspired by the Royal Navy. The mission was to allow British troops to advance behind armor plate in the face of suffocating enemy fire.

Discover the Mark I tank, the world's first operational tank, introduced by the British in 1916. Learn how its innovative design revolutionized warfare forever.

2024年5月26日 · On September 15, 1916, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the larger Somme Offensive, the British deployed tanks in combat for the first time. Of the 49 Mark I tanks available, only 32 made it to the starting line due to mechanical issues and lack of crew training. Of these, a mere nine reached the German lines.