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    for his Motorgeschütz, the first detailed concept of a modern tank. Burstyn's father Adolf Burstyn came from a Jewish family in Lviv, but Burstyn converted...
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    three-man tank with a gun in a revolving turret, the so-called Burstyn-Motorgeschütz. In the same year an Australian civil engineer named Lancelot de...
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    DiNardo, R.L. (January 1986). "The First Modern Tank: Gunther Burstyn and His Motorgeschutz". The Journal of Military History. 50 (1): 12–15. doi:10.2307/1988528...
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    1911, when Austrian Oberleutenant Gunther Burstyn proposed a design for "motor vehicle gun" (Motorgeschütz) with a turret. He patented his design in 1912...
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    officer Günther Burstyn submitted a proposal for a fighting vehicle that had a gun in a rotating turret, known as the Motorgeschütz. In 1912, the Australian...
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