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...
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The Medium Mark B was a British medium tank of the First World War developed as a successor to the Whippet, but ultimately unsatisfactory and production...
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see any fighting. In 1917 Sir William Tritton had developed the Medium Mark A Whippet without involving his former co-worker Walter Gordon Wilson. In...
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Medium Mark D was a British medium tank developed at the end of the First World War. It was envisaged as a vehicle to be used in "Plan 1919" an offensive...
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in use was the Medium Mark A Whippet, while the heavy tanks had been designed to attack the German trenches the Tank Corps now wanted a lighter, faster...
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The Whippet is a British breed of dog of sighthound type. It closely resembles the Greyhound and the smaller Italian Greyhound, and is intermediate between...
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whippet or whippets in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A whippet is a medium-sized sighthound. Whippet may also refer to: Whippet (A1 locomotive), a...
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Williams-Ellis, A. (1919). The Tank Corps. New York: G. H. Doran. p. 263. OCLC 317257337. Retrieved 3 October 2013. "Medium Mark a Whippet British Tank –...
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Battle of Amiens in August 1918, 288 Mark V tanks, along with the new Whippet and Mk V*, penetrated the German lines in a foretaste of modern armoured warfare...
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Tanks of the United States (redirect from T1 medium)
tank needs, the M26 was reclassified as a medium tank. However, its mobility was unsatisfactory for a medium tank, due to the fact that it used the same...
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The first tanks to carry the name "Medium" appeared in the First World War with the British Medium Mark A Whippet. It was smaller, lighter and faster...
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Note that "heavy" versus "medium" is more a question of tactical roles than weight; the Panther, for example, was a "medium" tank that outweighed most...
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the later Whippet in which each engine drove its own track. It is certain that construction was started at some point, but did not result in a completed...
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British heavy tanks of the First World War (redirect from Mark III (tank))
August 1918, several hundred Mark V tanks, along with the new Whippet and Mk V* tanks, penetrated the German lines in a foretaste of modern armoured warfare...
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Tanks in World War I (section Whippet)
operated by two men. At just 8 tons it was half the weight of the Medium A Whippet but the version with the cannon had more firepower. It was conceived...
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Mark IV (pronounced Mark four) was a British tank of the First World War. Introduced in 1917, it benefited from significant developments of the Mark I...
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supported the infantry and the faster Whippet Medium Mark A and its successors the Medium Mark B and Medium Mark C. During the interbellum British tank...
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A tankette is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle that resembles a small tank, roughly the size of a car. It is mainly intended for light infantry support...
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Нетопырь, which stands for Pipistrellus, a genus of bat) or Lebedenko Tank (Russian: танк Лебеденко), was a Russian armoured vehicle developed by Nikolai...
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and production specifications (resulting in a considerably heavier tank), and Panthers were considered medium tanks despite being of similar mass and volume...
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The Mark VIII tank also known as the Liberty or The International was a British-American tank design of the First World War intended to overcome the limitations...
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tanks and obtained a variety of models from foreign sources. These models included one British Heavy Mk IV and six Medium Mark A Whippets, along with thirteen...
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After a period at the training area it sent back to its original manufactures who may have used it for tests relating to the development of the whippet tank...
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they had a high silhouette, and only a few saw combat. The M3 Stuart series was an improvement of the M2 with better armor. The new medium tank just...
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tank, and the mobility of a light tank, in a package with the weight of a medium tank. The first designated MBT was the British Chieftain tank, which during...
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reproduced in the Mark I Dragon). It had rear wheel drive, like the Medium Mark A Whippet and Vickers Medium Mark I and Vickers Medium Mark II tanks. The...
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unit which gave a maximum speed of 28 mph/45 km/h, however, by comparison with tracked armour of the era – the Medium Mark A Whippet 'cavalry tank' of...
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officier qui, à l'époque, se soit livré à une étude approfondie de la question technique et militaire, et qui ait décidé le général en chef à marcherdans...
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formations of the British army were mostly equipped with the Vickers Medium Tank Mk I and Medium Mk II, which were judged obsolete by the 1930s; most of the vehicles...
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project cancelled in 1917 Mark VII † Mark X * Medium Mark A Whippet Medium Mark B Medium Mark C ‡ Medium Mark D † – intended to be a relatively fast tank to...
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