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Medium Tank
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
Type
Medium Tank
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Service history
Used by
United Kingdom Russian State Soviet Union
Wars
Russian Civil War Anglo-Irish War
Production history
No. built
102[1]
Specifications
Mass
18 tons[2]
Length
22 ft 9 in (6.9 m)
Width
8 ft 10 in (2.7 m)
Height
8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Crew
4:[2] commander, driver, mechanic, machine gunner
Armour
14 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
-
Engine
Ricardo 4-cylinder petrol 100 hp (75 kW)
Power/weight
5.6 hp/tonne
Suspension
unsprung
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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