Although the first limited use of tanks in 1916 had been militarily disappointing, the first British press reports hailed them as wonder weapons, and used elaborate language to compare them to dragons, whales, dreadnoughts, crabs, mammoths or "armoured toads". Public fascination was deepened by the release of several documentary films about ...

2016年9月15日 · The Mk.I tank was the first operational tank in the British army and in the world. It was based on the “Little Willie” (The Lincoln machine) project, supported by the Landships Committee, headed by Walter Wilson and William Tritton.

On 15 September 1916, the face of battle changed forever. Britain unleashed a closely guarded secret weapon on an unsuspecting enemy. It was a weapon that would, in time, completely change the nature of land warfare and replace the cavalry as the shock arm of armies.

Mark I 坦克在1916年8月开始服役，并于1916年9月15日首次应用在索姆河战役上。 它的主要作用是破坏战场上的铁丝网、越过战壕、亦能抵御小型武器的射击。

2010年3月3日 · During the Battle of the Somme, the British launch a major offensive against the Germans, employing tanks for the first time in history. At Flers Courcelette, some of the 40 or so primitive...

The new weapon made its battlefield debut on September 15, 1916 when fifty of the machines joined the Battle of the Somme in a third attempt to attack and break through the German defenses. The attack failed - no breakthrough occurred. Only 35 …

2021年11月26日 · The design of the Battletank followed directly from the ‘Flotilla Leader’ of April 1916. following the same conceptualization of what was needed from a tank and how it would work. Specifically, the vehicle was to be as protected as possible against enemy fire, specifically enemy field gun and artillery shells, whilst still being able to ...

2021年11月29日 · In April 1916, this heavily armored and armed tank was drafted as the ‘Flotilla Leader’. The design of the Flotilla Leader has to be considered in the context of other designs from the pen of William Foster and Co. Ltd. and specifically of two key men.

The first tanks ran trials in January, 1916; they first entered battle in September of the same year, at Flers-Courcelette, in northern France, where forty-nine vehicles were used to add impetus to a flagging infantry action. Success was limited, however, due to the limited number of tanks available, the lack of crew experience, and the ...

2022年10月27日 · For the first time ever, 49 tanks took part in the Battle of the Somme on September 15, 1916, during World War I. Soon, these “tracked armored vehicles” would develop into tanks that could traverse rivers and dense woodland.