The enemy they were designed to supress were machine gun posts and rows of barbed wire which the infantry soldier had problems over coming. This was not so in the muddy shell hole deformed battlefields of 1914-1918. But I was viewing the situation from a WW2 and modern warfare perspective where other tanks were the enemies. When I first learnt that a World War One British Mark IV Female Tank did not have a main cannon with which to defend itself, only four machine guns, I thought that was extremely silly. WW1 British Mark IV Female Tank Why was the British Mark IV Female tank only armed with machine guns? It has been placed under a canopy in the centre of the city amoungst the shops. This WW1 British Mark IV Female tank can be found in Ashford, Kent, England. Surviving British Mark IV Female Tank Surviving British WW1 Tanks
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