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From the Mark II onwards, a new design was introduced that was smaller, incorporated Lewis or Hotchkiss guns, and allowed for much larger doors. Both male and female tanks took part in the first tank action, on 15 September 1916, at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive on 15 September 1916.
The Bovington Mark II tank, F53 The Flying Scotsman. There is a single more or less complete surviving Mark II, F53: The Flying Scotsman, at the Bovington Tank Museum (see below). This tank still has battle damage sustained at the Battle of Arras in April 1917. This vehicle was originally a Male, had been rebuilt as a supply vehicle, was ...
Although they were in fact Medium II's and always called that way, their official designation was Tank Light Mark IA Special (L) India. Medium II Box Tank: This was a single command tank, converted from a Medium II in 1928, by removing the turret from the fighting compartment and fitting a large rectangular superstructure. Its only armament was ...
Tsar "tank" † [129] Mark IX, the world's first specialised armoured personnel carrier United Kingdom. AEC B type armoured lorry [130] Gun Carrier Mark II * [79] Killen-Strait armoured tractor † [131] Mark I converted to supply tank [132] Mark I fitted with wireless communications [132] Mark IX [133] Pedrail Machine † [134] Salvage Machine ...
The Infantry Tank Mark II, better known as the Matilda, is a British infantry tank of the Second World War. [ 1 ] The design began as the A12 specification in 1936, as a gun-armed counterpart to the first British infantry tank, the machine gun armed, two-man A11 Infantry Tank Mark I .
M1918 Ford 3-ton tank; Male tank; Mareșal (tank destroyer) Mark I tank; Mark II tank; Mark III tank; Mark IV tank; Mark V* tank; Mark V** tank; Mark VII tank; Mark VIII tank; Mark V Composite tank in Estonian service; Marmon–Herrington CTLS; Giffard Le Quesne Martel; Matilda I (tank) Matilda II; May 2024 Al-Mawasi refugee camp attack; MBT-70 ...
The 17-pounder could knock out any German tank. Often referred to by the post-war nickname "Firefly", but during WWII this nickname was also used for the 17pdr M10. Lee and Grant – M3 Lee medium tank; 3in SP M10 – M10 tank destroyer; 17pdr SP M10 – M10 tank destroyer equipped with a British 17-pounder gun
Churchill AVRE with fascine on tilt-forward cradle. This particular example is a post-WW2 AVRE on the MK VII chassis. Proposed by a Canadian engineer as a result of experience from the Dieppe Raid, [2] the Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) was a Churchill Mark III or IV equipped with the "Mortar, Recoiling Spigot, Mark II" (or Petard), a spigot mortar [a] that throws the 230 mm (9.1 in ...