Tag: tank
-
AMX-50/120 surbaissé
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: France Period: Cold War Location: Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France Cold war colossus The AMX-50 was a French attempt to build a functional modern heavy tank intended to succeed the archaic ARL 44 in the 1950s. The first of only five prototypes was visibly inspired by the German Tiger II and…
-
Light Tank M5A1 Stuart (Replica)
Type: Light Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Dead Man‘s Corner Museum, Carentan les Marais, France All in the family The Light Tank M5 was an improved version of the M3 Stuart. It was developed from late 1941 to early 1942 to free up Continental W-670 engines which were needed for aircraft production.…
-
Centurion Mk 5/2
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: Cold War Location: Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands One size fits all The Centurion is widely considered one of the best tank designs of all time. Its origins date back to 1943, when the development of a heavy cruiser tank was ordered. Up to that point, the…
-
76 mm Gun Tank M41 Walker Bulldog
Type: Light Tank Nation: USA Period: Cold War Location: Wiemesmeer, Belgium Size does matter The M41 Walker Bulldog was designed as a replacement for the ageing M24 Chaffee light tank. In the early 1950s the US Army had started to classify their tanks by calibre instead of weight. A light tank was to be armed…
-
Char Schneider CA1 (Replica)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: France Period: World War 1 Location: Monument National des chars d‘assaut, Berry-au-Bac, France The world’s other first tank The Schneider CA1 was the first French tank. It was designed at the same time as the British Little Willie prototype, but since both countries treated their tank programmes as secrets which might…
-
Sturmpanzerwagen A7V (Replica)
Type: Heavy TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK The first tank battle The A7V was deployed for the first time on 21 March 1918 at the Canal de Saint-Quentin in Northern France. The first tank-on-tank engagement in history would take place only a month later. On 24 April three German A7Vs…
-
Sturmpanzerwagen A7V (Replica)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 1 Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Difficult decisions The A7V was the first and only operational German tank of World War 1. When the first British Mark Is had been crawling across the battlefield on the Somme in September 1916, the German reaction (aside from a historical…
-
Mark V (Male)
Type: Heavy TankNation: United KingdomPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK End of the line Concluding the evolutionary process that had started with the Mark I, the Mark V was the third and last major operational British heavy tank of World War 1. Around 400 Mark Vs were produced until the Armistice of…
-
Mark IV (Male)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 1 Location: Musée Royal de l’Armée, Bruxelles, Belgium Overproduction The Mark IV was the world’s first mass-produced tank. Although introduced in 1917, from a technical standpoint it was not much different from 1915’s “Mother” prototype: The machine still required four men just for driving. When General…
-
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…