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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 .
Matilda tank" may refer to: Matilda I (tank) , also known by its specification number A11, a British infantry tank in service 1938–1940 Matilda II , A12, a British infantry tank in service 1939–1945
The remaining 19 tanks were held by the Armoured Fighting School at Waiouru for training purposes, or as spares at Trentham. The Matilda tanks were found to be too heavy for New Zealand bridges and would be impractical to operate in the pacific. The 3-inch howitzers were removed from 18 of the Matildas and repurposed in Valentine tanks ...
Some larger Matilda II tanks among the Matilda Is advanced through the artillery and anti-tank fire unscathed, German shells bouncing off their armour. The tanks destroyed the German anti-tank guns with return fire and rolled over them, killing the crews. The British tanks were eventually stopped short of Hill 111 by fire from another artillery ...
The Tank, Infantry, Mk I, Matilda I (A11) [2] is a British infantry tank of the Second World War.Despite being slow, cramped and armed with only a single machine gun, the Matilda I had some success in the Battle of France in 1940, owing to its heavy armour which withstood the standard German anti-tank guns.
The first two purpose-designed infantry tanks, the A.11 Matilda Mark I armed with a heavy machine-gun and A.12 Matilda Mark II with a heavy machine gun and 2-pounder anti-tank gun. The Mark I had been ordered in 1938, but it had become clear that a better-armed tank would be needed and the Mark II, was already under design and would be ordered ...
The result was a series of designs such as the A9 which Sir John Carden of Vickers-Armstrong produced in 1934 and A10 and Crusader (A15) cruiser tanks, and the Matilda (A11) also by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, began in 1935 and Matilda II (A12) infantry tanks, and a series of light tanks, the Light Tank Mk I built earlier by Vickers Armstrong from ...
LVT-4(F) Sea Serpent: British version armed with flamethrowers, but unarmoured; Wasp: not strictly a flame tank, the Universal Carrier (a small lightly armoured tracked personnel and equipment carrier) fitted with the Wasp flamethrower, a continued development of the Ronson by the Petroleum Warfare Department [15]