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The Whippet was, a British tank veteran wrote, "the big surprise" of the Royal Tank Corps. Crews used their vehicles' speed to attack troops in the rear. They were so successful that by summer 1918 civilians "seemed to talk in terms of whippets", not knowing of heavy tanks' importance in breaking through fortifications and barbed wire. [15 ...
Place the template below {{Infobox weapon}}, at the top of article content, or at the top of an article section. {{Interwar tanks}} Or place it at the bottom of an article, applying the wide style. {{Interwar tanks|style=wide}} The template automatically collapses when necessary, but this can be overridden with the state parameter.
In 1919, a number of British tanks were involved in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War; 74 Mark V and Whippets formed the South Russian Tank Detachment which was landed on the Black Sea coast, while a much smaller North Russian Tank Detachment was sent to guard the port of Arkhangelsk.
Place the template below {{Infobox weapon}}, at the top of article content, or at the top of an article section. {{Interwar tanks}} Or place it at the bottom of an article, applying the wide style. {{Interwar tanks|style=wide}} The template automatically collapses when necessary, but this can be overridden with the state parameter.
Scale is usually expressed as a ratio (e.g. '1:35') or as a fraction (e.g. '1/35'). In either case it conveys the notion that the replica or model is accurately scaled in all visible proportions from a full-size prototype object. Thus a 1:35 scale model tank is 1/35 the size of the actual vehicle upon which the model is based.
Use of the {} template within a chart that uses this template produces a font size 75% of the page default, well below the 85% minimum specified in the linked guidelines. Per Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 159#Infobox font size, common text within an infobox is 88% of page default. Therefore use of this template in an infobox yields ...
E.g., Template:AFV tank, Template:AFV wheeled, Template:AFV APC, etc. Template:AFV tank modern could dispense with the armour thickness, since we usually don't know what it is. Sub-templates could be used to keep common elements of the table code in one place. Regarding the order of fields: I would suggest:
[[Category:Tank templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Tank templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.