The Mark I tanks were the first tanks ever to see combat, going into action against the Germans at the Battle of the Somme on September 15, 1916. The British built 150 examples of the Mark I in ...

Weighing 18 tons, with a crew of 2 plus four gunners Little Willie was the first completed tank prototype in HistoryIn 1915 the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, created a Landships ...

astride a jet-engined tank named Big Wind. Big Wind was not the first of its kind, but a successful development of a concept first pioneered by the Soviet Union. Decades before, the Soviets had ...