First World War Russian Civil War Second World War (unknown usage)
Production history
Designer
Major W. G. Wilson
Designed
1917
Manufacturer
Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, Birmingham, England
Produced
1917 – June 1918
No. built
400
Specifications
Mass
Male: 29 tons "battle weight" Female: 28 tons[3]
Length
26 ft 5 in (8 m)[3]
Width
Male: 13 ft 6 inch (4.1m)[3] Female: 10 ft 6 in
Height
2.64 m (8 ft 8 in)[4]
Crew
8 (commander, driver, and six gunners)
Armour
16 mm (0.63 in) maximum front 12 mm sides 8 mm roof and "belly"[3]
Main armament
Male:
Two 6-pounder (57-mm) 6 cwt QF guns with 207 rounds;
four .303 in (7.7-mm) Hotchkiss Mk 1 Machine Gun Female:
Six .303 in Hotchkiss Mk 1 Machine Gun
Engine
19 litre six cylinder in-line Ricardo petrol engine 150 hp (110 kW) at 1200 rpm
Power/weight
Male: 5.2 hp/ton[3]
Transmission
4 forward 1 reverse, Wilson epicyclic in final drive
Fuel capacity
93 imperial gallons (420 L)[3]
Operational range
45 mi (72 km) radius of action[3] about 10 hours endurance
Maximum speed
5 mph (8.0 km/h) maximum
Steering system
Wilson epicyclic steering
The British Mark V tank[a] was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank.
The tank was improved in several aspects over the Mark IV, chiefly the new steering system, transmission and 150 bhp engine, but it fell short in other areas, particularly its insufficient ventilation leading to carbon monoxide poisoning for the crew.[5] Various versions were fitted with a variety of armament including 6-pounder guns and machine guns.
It was first deployed in July 1918 on the Western Front at the Battle of Hamel; then at the Battle of Amiens, and on the Hindenburg Line during the closing months of World War I.
During the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War on the White Russian side, four Mark Vs were delivered to Archangelsk, four to Tallinn, Estonia,[6] and around 70 were delivered to Novorossiysk in southern Russia. The survivors were captured and used by the Red Army.[7]
There were two main further variants, the lengthened Mark V* and a few Mark V**s with a more powerful engine and wider tracks. A planned Mark V*** was never built. There are eleven surviving Mark V tanks. The Mark VIII tank was an enlarged Mark V with greater power: only those with the Liberty engine saw post-war service in the US. A further unarmed development was the Mark IX tank, one of the first armoured personnel carriers, which saw limited use in Britain after the war.
In general the Mark V was successful, especially given its limited service history, and somewhat primitive design dating back to 1915.
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^ abcdefgAFV Profile No. 3 Tanks Marks I to V
^Tank, Mark V (Male), Bovington Tank Museum
^Fletcher, David. "Tank Chats #21 Mark V Tank". Youtube. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^Bullock, David; Deryabin, Alexander (2003). Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Allied. New Vanguard 83. illustrated by Alexei Aksenov. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 14–15.
^Fletcher, David (2011). Mark V Tank. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 20–28.
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