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Medium Tank Mark B
Medium Tank Mark B. The machine guns are missing from their mounts in the superstructure and in the projecting doors on the sides
TypeMedium Tank
Place of originUnited Kingdom
Service history
Used byUnited Kingdom
Russian State
Soviet Union
WarsRussian Civil War
Anglo-Irish War
Production history
No. built102[1]
Specifications
Mass18 tons[2]
Length22 ft 9 in (6.9 m)
Width8 ft 10 in (2.7 m)
Height8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Crew4:[2] commander, driver, mechanic, machine gunner

Armour14 mm-6 mm [2]
Main
armament
4 x .303 in (7.7 mm) Hotchkiss machine guns[2] to be placed in seven possible ball-mounts
Secondary
armament
-
EngineRicardo 4-cylinder petrol
100 hp (75 kW)
Power/weight5.6 hp/tonne
Suspensionunsprung
Operational
range
105 km or 65 miles [2]
Maximum speed 6 mph (10 km/h)

The Medium Mark B was a British tank of the First World War developed as a successor to the Whippet, but ultimately unsatisfactory and production was cancelled at the end of the war.

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