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6.4 km/h (4.0 mph) cross-country. The Sturmpanzerwagen A7V was a heavy tank introduced by Germany in 1918 during World War I. One hundred chassis were ordered in early 1917, ten to be finished as fighting vehicles with armoured bodies, and the remainder as Überlandwagen cargo carriers. [2] The number to be armoured was later increased to 20.
The development of tanks in World War I was a response to the stalemate that developed on the Western Front. Although vehicles that incorporated the basic principles of the tank (armour, firepower, and all-terrain mobility) had been projected in the decade or so before the War, it was the alarmingly heavy casualties of the start of its trench ...
The tank name,"Mephisto" of this captured A7V is painted on the end facing of the box-shaped tank chassis serial number 506, as almost all German tanks in WW1 were given individual names. A German-captured British tank in 1917.Battle of Cambrai (1917). Germans recover a British Tank 1917.Battle of Cambrai (1917).
Mephisto (tank) Coordinates: 27°28′22.77″S 153°01′04.45″E. Mephisto on display in the Australian War Memorial. Mephisto after recovery from the battlefield. Mephisto is a World War I German tank, the only surviving example of an A7V.
Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.
Prototype-World War I Tanks that entered service after, but as designed in World War I Name Country Year Planned prod./actual total Crew Armament [ammo (rds.)] Armour thickness (front/side/top) Weight Engine Speed Range FCM Char 2C: France 1918 300+/10 12 Canon de 75 modèle 1897, 4× 7.92 mm MG 45/22/10 mm 70 t Petrol 2×200/250 hp
37 km/h (23 mph) on-road; 25 km/h (16 mph) off-road. The Panzer I was a light tank produced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Its name is short for Panzerkampfwagen I (German for " armored fighting vehicle mark I"), abbreviated as Pz.Kpfw. I. The tank's official German ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 101 ("special purpose vehicle 101").
2 x V6 Daimler. 650 hp (480 kW) Suspension. unsprung. Maximum speed. 7.5 kilometres per hour (4.7 mph) The Großkampfwagen or " K-Wagen " (short for G.K.-Wagen) was a German super-heavy tank, two prototypes of which were almost completed by the end of World War I.