Instead, the main armament was arranged in sponsons at the side of the vehicle. Due to the height necessary for this shape, an armed turret would have made the vehicle too tall and unstable. Tanks also carried supplies and troops.īritish heavy tanks are distinguished by a rhomboidal shape with a high climbing face of the track, designed to cross the wide and deep trenches prevalent on the battlefields of the Western Front. It could survive the machine gun and small-arms fire in " no man's land", travel over difficult terrain, crush barbed wire, and cross trenches to assault fortified enemy positions with powerful armament. The tank was developed in 1915 to break the stalemate of trench warfare. The name "tank" was initially a code name to maintain secrecy and disguise its true purpose. The Mark I was the world's first tank, a tracked, armed, and armoured vehicle, to enter combat. British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War.
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