1/4/2024 0 Comments Modern day tank![]() Thus, ‘Little Willie’ was redundant almost as soon as it was built. Type-90 APC, also known as the initial WZ551 serie. This vehicle was also declined into the ZLS-92 export variant, but without much sales successes. This would become the classic British tank design of the Great War. Part of a large family of specialized vehicles including the ZSL92, WMZ551, VN2, and Type 92. Its designers, William Tritton and Walter Wilson came up with a set of workable tracks which were fitted to the ‘Landship’ now known as ‘Little Willie,’ said to be an irreverent nickname for the German Crown Prince, Kaiser Wilhelm.īy the time ‘Little Willie’ was built, Wilson and Tritton had already come up with an improved idea of a machine with tracks running all the way around the vehicle, which would be able to cross trenches. of Lincoln, was contracted to build a prototype machine. After many experiments and false starts an agricultural firm, William Foster & Co. In 1915 the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, created a Landships Committee to tackle the problems of trench warfare. It proved that a vehicle encompassing armoured protection, an internal combustion engine, and tracks was a possibility for the battlefield. Little Willie was the first working tank in the world. The T-34, conceived in great secrecy in Stalinist Russia, featured a powerful 76.2-millimeter main gun, good armor protection, and good cross-country mobility. ![]()
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