Tank
Tanque (carro de combate)
- Date
- 1915–1916 · confidence high
- Place
- Lincoln, England (William Foster & Co.)
- Credited to
- Landship Committee (Churchill), William Tritton and Walter Wilson (Little Willie, Mark I; Flers-Courcelette, 15-9-1916); Renault FT (rotating turret, 1917)
- People
- 👤 Walter Wilson1900–2000👤 William Tritton1875–1946
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
Tracked armoured vehicle with guns and machine guns able to cross trenches and barbed wire. It broke the deadlock of trench warfare.
What it led to
- War of movement and Blitzkrieg
- Armoured vehicle industry and armoured doctrine
- End of the cavalry
Built on
- Four-stroke internal combustion engine1876
- Maxim machine gun1884
- Motor truck1896
- Holt caterpillar tractor
- Four-stroke engine
- Maxim gun
- Armour plate steel
Made possible
- Renault FT tank (rotating turret and rear engine)1917
- Blitzkrieg
- Infantry fighting vehicle
- Bulldozer