Tanks of world war 1 Sixth hour: Jaydon murray The first tank in combat The first tank in combat is the mark 1 tank fought in the battle of somme in september 15, 1916 They weighed 28 tons The biggest tank in ww1 The biggest tanks was the char c2 and weighed 69 tons becasue of its armor it was the thickest for ww1 tanks it was over 12 meters long The smallest tank of ww1 The tankette was the smallest tanks made to be a one man mobile machine gun nest Why are tanks called tanks? The british named them tanks to use the name water tanks to disguise it. Did America have tanks? No america did not have tanks but the french renault ft light tanks were used in the last stages of ww1 Tanks Tanks were originally made in britain there propose was to cross barriers Did any tanks from ww1 survive today? Yes there are 6 mark 4 left three are in the UK They have one mark 1 tanks it is part of the Bovington tank museum but its history and identity is unknown Websites I used while making this https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJHArwp8408H_EUJ0ihBcFE7CRMgIZLBje kdoVDvdcU/edit?usp=sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I