• JTskulk@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If I remember my history accurately, that’s because tanks were a new British secret weapon. The whole reason they’re even called tanks is because that was the code name, they referred to them as water tanks.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, in 1916 which is fucking crazy to think about because the french army literally had napoleonic era style cuirassiers in 1914.

  • 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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      3 months ago

      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!