Best main battle tanks 20199/20/2023 ![]() ![]() CREDIT: ROBERT HUNT LIBRARY/WINDMILL BOOKS/GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTORĪlthough tracked vehicles had been around since the 1830s and armour plating was in widespread military use, tanks as we know them did not exist before 1916. ![]() Is the tank a 100-year experiment that has no place on tomorrow’s battlefield? A British Mark 1 tank crossing a trench on its way to attack Thiepval, 25th September, 1916. Leaving aside the vexed question of what qualifies as a tank, are the conditions that brought about its invention a century ago still relevant when considering the battlefield of the future, or important enough to warrant the huge effort and investment of money and personnel? Is there a better way? Infantry fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, recce cars and engineer bridge layers have all been erroneously labelled ‘tanks’ over the years. One however, seems to irk intelligent consumers of Defence journalism more than most: the insistence that any military vehicle painted green and with a gun sticking out the front is a tank. But with only 2,500 words available in this article I haven’t time to list them all. Scroll down to use our 360 degree tool to go inside the British Army’s main battle tank of the 70s.
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