Flashcards: World War I tanks

Little Willie was a prototype in the development of the British Mark I tank.

The Medium Mark B was a British tank of the First World War developed as a successor to the Whippet, but ultimately unsatisfactory and production was cancelled at the end of the war.

The Renault FT, frequently referred to in post-World War I literature as the "FT-17" or "FT17", was a French light tank that was among the most revolutionary and influential tank designs in history.

The Tsar Tank (Russian: Царь-танк), also known as the Netopyr' (Нетопырь) which stands for Pipistrellus (a genus of bat) or Lebedenko Tank (танк Лебеденко), was an unusual Russian armoured vehicle developed by Nikolai Lebedenko (Николай Лебеденко), Nikolai Zhukovsky (Николай Жуковский), Boris Stechkin (Борис Стечкин), and Alexander Mikulin (Александр Микулин) from 1914 onwards.

British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by Great Britain during the First World War.

The Steam Tank (Tracked) was an early U.

The Tank Mark VIII also known as the Liberty or The International was an Anglo-American tank design of the First World War intended to overcome the limitations of the earlier British designs and be a collaborative effort to equip France, the UK and the US with a single heavy tank design.

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.

The Saint-Chamond, named after Saint Chamond, was the second French heavy tank of the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918.

The Leichter Kampfwagen (English: light combat car) or "LK I" was a German light tank prototype of the First World War.

The Medium Mark A Whippet was a British tank of the First World War.

The Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien ("Upper Silesia assault armoured wagon" from German: der Sturm, the storm, the assault; German: der Panzer, gepanzert the armour, armoured; German: der Wagen the vehicle, wagon) was a German tank project of the First World War.

The A7V was a tank introduced by Germany in 1918, during World War I.

The Schneider CA 1 (originally named the Schneider CA) was an armoured fighting vehicle developed in France during the First World War.

The Skeleton Tank was an experimental prototype tank built in 1918 by the Pioneer Tractor Company, Winona, Minnesota.

The Holt Gas-Electric Tank was the first prototype tank built in the United States in a collaboration between the Holt Manufacturing Company (now Caterpillar Inc.) and the General Electric Company.

The Medium Mark C Hornet was a British tank developed during the First World War, but produced too late to see any fighting.

The Vezdekhod (Russian: Вездеход) was the first true tank to be developed by Imperial Russia.

The Mark IV (pronounced "Mark Four") was a British tank of World War I.

The British Mark V tank was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank, deployed in 1918 and used in action in the closing months of World War I, in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War on the White Russian side, and by the Red Army.

The M1917 was the USA's first mass-produced tank, entering production shortly before the end of World War I.

The Flying Elephant was a proposed super-heavy tank, planned but never built by the British during World War I.

The development of tanks in World War I was a response to the stalemate that trench warfare had created on the Western Front.

As the American army did not have tanks of its own, the French two-man Renault FT Light Tank was used by US in the later stages of World War I.