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The British never allocated their Mark VIIIs to a tank unit; a single vehicle survives at the Bovington Tank Museum. The tank appearing in the 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie was a replica vehicle made from an excavator, following the hull shape of the Mark VIII but with a turret added. [8]
Mark 8 torpedo (1911); American 21-inch torpedo designed by Bliss-Leavitt.; 18 inch Mark VIII torpedo; a British 18-inch wet-heater torpedo that began service in 1913; Tank Mark VIII, also known as the "Liberty" or "International tank"; an Anglo-American tank design of the late World War I
[3] [7] Maximum displacement and draught varied depending on the loadout: trucks would result in a 650-ton displacement, 3-foot (0.91 m) draught at the bow, and 4-foot-8-inch (1.42 m) draught at the stern; for tanks, it was 780 tons, 3 feet 9 inches (1.14 m) forward, and 5 feet (1.5 m) aft; while a full load of cargo resulted in a displacement ...
The M6 heavy tank was a heavy tank built off of the similarly designed multi-turreted T1, armed with a 76.2 mm gun, a co-axial 37 mm gun, two .50 BMG M2 Browning and two .30-06 M1919 Browning machine guns, two in the hull and one on top of the turret. An order of 50 was placed and prototype vehicles saw trials but by the time it was ready for ...
An additional 44mm thick frontal glacis armor plate was common to older Centurion Mark 3's upgraded to Sho't Kal standard, [12] however, not all Alefs were equipped with this plate, as some can be seen in photos without the additional glacis plate. The additional plate mainly originates from the Centurion Mark 5/1, which was an upgrade for Mark ...
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The Mark 7 gun was originally intended to fire the 2,240-pound (1,020 kg) Mark 5 armor-piercing shell. However, the shell-handling system for these guns was redesigned to use the "super-heavy" 2,700-pound (1,200 kg) APCBC (Armor Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Capped) Mark 8 shell before any of the Iowa-class battleship's keels