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    The Medium Mark A Whippet was a tank employed by the British in World War I. Intended for fast mobile assaults, it was intended to complement the slower...
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    Light Tank Mk IV British Medium Whippet Mk A Renault FT "Ko-Gata Sensha" light tank Renault NC27 "Otsu-Gata Sensha" light tank Carden-Loyd Mk.VI Stuart...
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    Passchendaele, Cambrai, Amiens (using Whippet Mk A light tanks), Bapaume, 2nd Arras and Cambrai-St Quentin. During this time, a Victoria Cross was awarded to...
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  • modern) Wespe self-propelled 105 mm howitzer on a Panzer II chassis (Germany; World War II) Whippet Mk A medium tank (United Kingdom; World War I) Wiesel...
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    The Mark X, a further improvement on the Mk V, was planned but never built. The Medium Mark A Whippet was a British tank of the First World War. It was...
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    Matilda II (redirect from Mk.II Matilda)
    War division between the first British heavy tanks and the faster Whippet Medium Mark A and its successors the Medium Mark B and Medium Mark C. During the...
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    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 tank...
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    Mark V tank (redirect from Mk V tank)
    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, and signalled...
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    but also a small amount of Whippet tanks and various types of French tanks were captured too. The Germans first captured Mk IVs during and after the Battle...
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    Medium Mark B (redirect from Medium Mk B)
    The Medium Mark B was a British tank of the First World War developed as a successor to the Whippet, but ultimately unsatisfactory and production was...
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    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 for...
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    tank-against-tank fight took place where an A7V engaged a group of Whippet tanks and destroyed one of them. A counterattack later re-established the Allied line...
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    Mark IV tank (redirect from Mk IV tank)
    in armour, the re-siting of the fuel tank and ease of transport. A total of 1,220 Mk IV were built: 420 "Males", 595 "Females" and 205 Tank Tenders (unarmed...
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    consisted of armoured bodywork and a single fully rotating turret mounting a regular water-cooled .303 in (7.7 mm) Mk I Vickers machine gun. The first three...
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    Little Willie (the forerunner of British tanks), Whippet, Renault FT, Char B1, Panzer II, Tiger 131 (a Tiger I captured in Tunisia in April 1943 and fully...
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    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. The German...
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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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    Mark VIII tank (redirect from Tank Mk VIII)
    International was a British-American tank design of the First World War intended to overcome the limitations of the earlier British designs and be a collaborative...
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    "Medium" appeared in the First World War with the British Medium Mark A Whippet. It was smaller, lighter and faster than the British heavy tanks of the...
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    swarm an opponent, instead of a few expensive and unsatisfactory medium tanks. "Light" cruiser tanks (for example the Cruiser Mk I) carried less armour and...
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  • Light Tank Mk VII Tetrarch Light Tank Mk VIII prototype Cruiser Mk I Cruiser Mk II Cruiser Mk III Cruiser Mk IV Cruiser Mk V Covenanter Cruiser Mk VI Crusader...
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    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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    British Light Tank Mk VI, French Renault R35, German Panzer I, Italian L3/35 (classified as a light tank by the Royal Italian Army, a tankette by others)...
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  • 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 9th (IX)...
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    Shetland Sheepdog Silken Windhound Sloughi Smooth Collie Taigan Welsh Terrier Whippet Wolf Balinese Devon Rex Donskoy Jaguar Javanese Leopard Lion Ocelot Oriental...
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  • Russian Civil War, Soviet Russia had a stock of imported Mark V (called Rikardo, after the Ricardo engine), Whippet (Tyeilor, after the Tylor engine), and...
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  • The KV-4 (Object 224) was a proposed Soviet heavy break-through tank, developed during World War II as a part of the Kliment Voroshilov tank design series...
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    rather than a crank starter. U.S. troops also used the British Heavy Tanks Mk V and Mk V* (pronounced "Mark Five" and "Mark Five Star"). A battalion trained...
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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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    A super-heavy tank or super heavy tank is any tank that is notably beyond the standard of the class heavy tank in either size or weight relative to contemporary...
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