Category: United Kingdom
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Mark II (Female)
Type: Heavy TankNation: United KingdomPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Unfit for combat On 19 September 1916, only four days after the world had seen the first tank attack by a small amount of Mark Is, the British Commander-in-Chief in France Sir Douglas Haig placed an order for 1,000 more tanks. As…
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Mark I (Male)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 1 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Father of the tank? Already before completing their Little Willie prototype, the British engineers William Tritton and Walter Wilson had come to realise that their creation‘s low track frames would severely limit its trench-crossing capabilities. Wilson therefore proposed a…
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Little Willie
Type: Experimental Prototype Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 1 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Deadlock in the west Soon after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Western Front had become completely static. Both sides had been digging extensive trench systems, reaching from the Belgian coastline all the way to…
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Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: USA/UK/France/Italy/Germany Period: Cold War Location: Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands Arms race at a snail‘s pace The MLRS was a joint American, British, French, Italian and West German cooperation to develop a highly mobile self-propelled artillery system for attacking a target area with large amounts of firepower. Compared to the pinpoint…
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A34 Comet (Type A)
Type: Cruiser Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium In 1943 the British Army had recognised the need for a tank with a high-velocity gun to take on the newest generation of German tanks, namely Panther and Tiger. But they soon found out that the excellent 17-pounder anti-tank gun was…
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Sherman VC Firefly
Type: Medium Tank/Cruiser Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium The Firefly was a British conversion of the American M4 medium tank, re-armed with the powerful 17-pounder anti-tank gun. In this case the base vehicle was an M4A4 which was powered by a Chrysler A57 30-cylinder multibank engine. The size…
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Infantry Tank Mk II A12 Matilda Mk III
Type: Infantry Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium In the 1930s three different tank concepts were developed in Great Britain: Light tanks for reconnaissance, heavily armoured infantry tanks to support attacks on enemy positions and maneuverable cruiser tanks to exploit these gaps. The Matilda II was of the second…
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Cruiser Mk VIII A27L Centaur IV CS
Type: Cruiser Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 2 Location: Memorial Pegasus, Benouville, France The A27L Centaur was one of three competing designs for a successor to the rapidly ageing Cruiser Mk VI Crusader. The other two were A24 Cavalier and A27M Cromwell – the latter would eventually be chosen for production. The „L“…