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    The Boirault machine (French: Appareil Boirault), was an early French experimental landship, designed in 1914 and built in early 1915. It has been considered...
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    experimented with various tank designs, such as the Frot-Laffly landship, Boirault machine and Souain experiment. Another 400 Saint-Chamond tanks were manufactured...
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    made with the Boirault machine, with the objective of flattening barbed wire defences and riding over gaps in a battlefield. The machine was made of huge...
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    Saczeany tank * France Aubriot Gabet armoured tractor † Boirault machine I and II † Breton-Prétot machine (armed tractor) † Frot-Turmel-Laffly landship † Renault...
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    Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. A war machine (landship) from WW1 named Boirault machine was designed in 1915, later deemed impractical and...
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    one at the front and the other at the back. It was to be equipped with machine guns on raised platforms attached to the compactor chassis: one in front...
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    considered to employ Schneider CA hulls. In January 1917, engineer Louis Boirault proposed an articulated tank, a vehicle that would be long enough to cross...
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    trench-crossing capacity. It also discarded a proposal by the engineer Boirault to build a futuristic 120 ton articulated tank. It retained two options:...
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