The Medium Mark A Whippet was a medium tank employed by the British in World War I. Intended for fast mobile assaults, it was intended to complement the...
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whippet or whippets in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A whippet is a medium-sized sighthound. Whippet may also refer to: Whippet (A1 locomotive), a...
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use was the Medium Mark A Whippet, while the heavy tanks had been designed to attack the German trenches the Tank Corps now wanted a lighter, faster tank...
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The Medium Mark B was a British medium tank of the First World War developed as a successor to the Whippet, but ultimately unsatisfactory and production...
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British heavy tanks of the First World War (redirect from Mark III (tank))
August 1918, several hundred Mark V tanks, along with the new Whippet and Mk V* tanks, penetrated the German lines in a foretaste of modern armoured warfare...
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Mark IV (pronounced Mark four) was a British tank of the First World War. Introduced in 1917, it benefited from significant developments of the Mark I...
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Battle of Amiens in August 1918, 288 Mark V tanks, along with the new Whippet and Mk V*, penetrated the German lines in a foretaste of modern armoured warfare...
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any fighting. In 1917 Sir William Tritton had developed the Medium Mark A Whippet without involving his former co-worker Walter Gordon Wilson. In response...
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heavy tank and a Medium Mark A "Whippet" and also fitted powerful Rolls-Royce Eagle aeroplane engines to a Whippet To give a suspension that could flex...
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Williams-Ellis, A. (1919). The Tank Corps. New York: G. H. Doran. p. 263. OCLC 317257337. Retrieved 3 October 2013. "Medium Mark a Whippet British Tank –...
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