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sponsons. Combined with wide tracks it proved difficult to turn the tank. During testing many tracks twisted and broke in a turn and it was decided to use longer, stronger 13.25-inch (337 mm) links made of hardened cast armour plate, stiffened by webs formed by recesses in the track plate. Another effect of the narrow hull was that the fighting compartment was also very narrow. This was made worse by the fact that now the gap between the double track frames at each side was very wide; earlier types had only the tracks themselves widened. Nevertheless, the tank was supposed to accommodate another twenty infantry men in full gear if necessary. In absolute terms the vehicle was very large: at 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) tall the Mark VIII was the second largest operational tank in history, after the
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at the front), to reduce the width of the vehicle if enemy obstacles were encountered. Five more machine guns were in the superstructure: two at the front—left and right next to the driver—and one on each of the other sides. As there was no machine gun position covering the back of the tank there was a dead angle vulnerable to infantry attack. To solve this problem a triangular steel deflector plate was attached. The rear superstructure machine gunner could use it to deflect his fire down into that area behind the tank. The tank carried 208 shells and 13,848 machine gun rounds, mostly in a large ammunition locker in the centre which formed a platform on which the commander stood behind the driver observing the battlefield through a
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There were no machine guns in the sponsons, only the 6-pounders each manned by a gunner and loader. The side machine guns were to the rear of the sponsons mounted in the hull doors. Major Alden had designed the sponsons to be retractable (they could be swung in at the rear by the crew, being pivoted
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to divert all available tanks to the Army, leading to a conflict with the Navy (the first of many to come over this issue). This posed serious problems for the
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were used. Despite many modifications, the vehicles suffered from overheating and poor reliability, causing a prejudice in the Army against the use of heavy tanks. From 1932 onward they were phased out; all were in storage by 1934. In 1940, Canada had a lack of training tanks and were offered the
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200 miles south of Paris, contracting a
British company. Far from producing its first tank in April, the factory was not even finished by June. In August they contracted another British firm. It finished the factory in November, by which point the war had already ended; not a single tank would be
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on 19 January 1918. The treaty specified the programme in great detail. The first 1,500 tanks had to be made by the end of the year and the factory should be capable of expansion to 1,200 a month. Both goals were very ambitious given the fact there was neither a completed design nor a factory and
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cylinders. These redesigned engines were only produced in
October. In spite of these delays, there were plans to produce a further 1,500 tanks in the United States on top of the shared production in France. This was not possible due to lack of armour and guns so the extra production was to be in
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To improve its trench crossing ability to 4.88 m the vehicle had a very elongated shape. The track length was 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) but even though the hull width was an impressive nominal 3.76 m, the actual length-width ratio of the tracks was very poor as that width included the
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Benning, Georgia in 2014, and was inside until 2021. The interior has extensive damage from water/rust, although plans are in place for structural repairs. The tank was moved subsequently in May 2021, back to its original construction location at the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island,
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project, leading to enormous production delays. In pushing production through in the early days he had upset civil and military authorities. Stern was appointed in
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with its single space into which all accessories were crammed. The Mark VIII was compartimentalised with a separate engine room at the back. This vastly improved fighting conditions as a bulkhead protected the crew against the deafening engine noise, noxious fumes and heat.
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was informed of developments by the US Military Attaché in London. It ordered the project to be shifted to the Army and selected Major H. W. Alden – in peacetime he had been an industrial expert – to go to the UK to work with the
Mechanical Warfare Department design team at
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Liberty. Only the first managed to produce anything by the end of the war with seven vehicles built. The mild steel prototype with a Rolls-Royce engine was tested on 11 November, the day of the
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made these all by hand, completing the first vehicle on the 28 September. Testing began on 31 October. Only then was the armament shipped from Britain, and two guns and ten
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until more advanced designs replaced them in 1932. A few tanks which had not been scrapped by the start of World War II were offered to Canada for training purposes.
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France might supply an erecting shop, if convenient; in any case it might be wiser to build a new one (so a completely new factory would have to be built in France).
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1687:World War I
1530:CLB 75 Tank
1111:Heavy tanks
552:Description
432:Dollis Hill
306:Operational
224:10 US tanks
172: built
62:introducing
1957:Categories
1940:M10 Booker
1864:M48 Patton
1859:M47 Patton
1839:M46 Patton
1801:M22 Locust
1796:M4 Sherman
1715:Renault FT
1575:Steam tank
1519:Prototypes
1413:Renault FT
1198:Renault FT
1087:Prototypes
986:10 October
767:Fort Meade
713:Mark VIII*
707:Mark VIII*
624:Production
470:, the new
297:Suspension
118:Heavy tank
70:April 2009
45:references
1904:M1 Abrams
1748:T2 medium
1595:Vezdekhod
1590:Tsar Tank
1540:Fiat 2000
1499:Mark VIII
1154:Mark VIII
836:G-numbers
824:excavator
701:Bovington
694:Armistice
646:cast iron
618:landmines
261:Secondary
164:1918–1920
1874:M60 tank
1826:Cold War
1725:Interwar
1565:Mark VII
1494:Mark V**
1474:Mark III
1264:Carriers
1149:Mark VII
1129:Mark III
1100:"Mother"
1064:British
1013:(1988).
830:See also
798:Maryland
794:Aberdeen
771:Maryland
574:box tank
566:sponsons
440:Flanders
383:Lorraine
300:unsprung
271:or five
263:armament
247:armament
161:Produced
137:Designed
1899:HSTV(L)
1489:Mark V*
1479:Mark IV
1469:Mark II
1385:of the
1191:Command
1144:Mark VI
1134:Mark IV
1124:Mark II
1068:of the
963:YouTube
689:Ricardo
630:Char 2C
610:Char 2C
594:Ricardo
492:Char 2C
476:Mark IV
423:Mark VI
415:US Navy
411:US Army
375:Entente
363:US Army
336:Liberty
58:improve
1889:MBT-70
1791:M3 Lee
1535:FCM 1A
1484:Mark V
1464:Mark I
1423:Medium
1139:Mark V
1119:Mark I
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929:Flight
583:cupola
387:output
279:Engine
211:Height
193:Length
47:, but
1894:XM803
1560:LK II
1451:Heavy
1395:Light
1383:Tanks
1290:Other
1078:Tanks
842:Notes
436:Front
308:range
235:Armor
201:Width
1854:T110
1844:M103
1555:LK I
1021:ISBN
988:2008
717:Star
683:and
616:and
344:tank
330:The
251:two
245:Main
219:Crew
185:Mass
153:US:
148:UK:
140:1917
114:Type
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