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A Mk VI undergoing maintenance, France 1940. The location of the engine, beside the driver, can be seen. The Tank, Light, Mk VI was the sixth in the line of light tanks built by Vickers-Armstrongs for the British Army during the interwar period.
Light Tank Mk VIB. The Light Tank Mk VI was a continuation of the Mark V design. It also had a three-man crew but a larger turret to accommodate a radio set and had an 88 hp engine for higher speed, despite the heavier weight.
The Mark V had to embody the most advanced features that could still be incorporated into the Mark I hull. The Mark VI should abandon the old hull entirely, reflecting only some general principles of the older tank. [1] On 13 July 1917, Metropolitan, the firm associated to Sir William Tritton, had a wooden mock-up ready of both models. [2]
The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers.Though not adopted by the British Army, it was picked up by several other armed forces, and licensed by the Soviet Union as the T-26.
Looking for a lighter and cheaper tank to build, the General Staff requested alternatives from British industry. To this end, the A13 Mk III cruiser tank, which was to enter service as the "Tank, Cruiser Mk V" (known as the Covenanter), was designed by London Midland and Scottish. Nuffield was, in 1939, offered the opportunity to take part in ...
The tank was outdated by the 1930s due to its slow speed (under 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and thin armour (6–16 mm), but it did have one of the longest independent trench crossing capabilities of any armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) ever made; later tanks used bridge laying tanks for crossing large deep trenches.
Vickers Mk.VI light tank, a British tank design from the first years of World War II; 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun, World War II-era U.S. Navy gun used as main armament on six fast battleships; Supermarine Spitfire Mk VI, high altitude Royal Air Force fighter with five-blade propeller; Mark 6 nuclear bomb (1951–1955), an American nuclear bomb
VI), [5] Finland (Mk. IVs and Model 33s), [6] Portugal (6) and Ethiopia (3). The design of the German Panzer I light tank was influenced by the Carden Loyd Tankette, due to the German military cooperation with the Soviet Union. Carden-Loyd Mk VI, bought by Finland in 1933 for trials. Tankette was in use until 1941. [7]