• napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Whilst Germany deployed only 18 of its own tank model (A7V), they did capture hundreds of allied tanks and used them in their own regiments.

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      Fun Fact: so did the Russian Revolution. The Allies tried to invade and the Bolsheviks captured and reverse engineered Allied tanks, mostly copying French designs to make the T-18.

      There is thus a direct lineage from the French Renault FT to the T-34, which would become famous for fighting Panzers descended from the British Carden Loyd!