the first tank was used in battle on 15 september 1916.
the first tank was used in battle on 15 september 1916.
when was the first tank used in battle?
15 september 1916
however leading roles were played by lt walter gordon wilson r.n. who designed the gearbox and developed practical tracks and by william tritton whose agricultural machinery company, william foster & co. in lincoln, lincolnshire, england built the prototypes. on 22 july 1915, a commission was placed to design a machine that could cross a trench 4 ft wide. secrecy surrounded the project with the designers locking themselves in a room at the white hart hotel in lincoln. the committee's first design, little willie, ran for the first time in september 1915 and served to develop the form of the track but an improved design, better able to cross trenches, swiftly followed and in january 1916 the prototype, nicknamed "mother", was adopted as the design for future tanks. the first order for tanks was placed on 12 february 1916, and a second on 21 april. fosters built 37 (all "male"), and metropolitan carriage, wagon, and finance company, of birmingham, 113 (38 "male" and 75 "female"), a total of 150. production models of "male" tanks (armed with naval cannon and machine guns) and "females" (carrying only machine-guns) would go on to fight in history's first tank action at the somme in september 1916. great britain produced about 2,600 tanks of various types during the war. the first tank to engage in battle was designated "d1", a british mark i male, during the battle of flers-courcelette (part of the wider somme offensive) on 15 september 1916. bert chaney, a nineteen-year-old signaller with the 7th london territorial battalion, reported that "three huge mechanical monsters such as [he] had never seen before" rumbled their way onto the battlefield, "frightening the jerries out of their wits and making them scuttle like frightened rabbits." when the news of the first use of the tanks emerged, prime minister david lloyd george commented,
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gongchen tank









































the gongchen tank () is the chinese designation of a japanese-built type 97 shinhoto chi-ha medium tank used within the people's liberation army. it was the first tank used by the pla, and saw service during the chinese civil war against the national revolutionary army.









































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gongchen tank