The developers of tanks aimed to return manoeuvre to warfare, and found a practical way to do so: providing caterpillar traction to machine guns allowing them to overcome trenches, while at the same time offering them armour protection against small-arms (pistol, rifle, and machine gun) fire as they were moving.īritain and France first developed tanks in 1915 as a way of navigating the barbed wire and other obstacles of no-man's land while remaining protected from machine-gun fire. Under these conditions, attacks usually advanced very slowly and incurred massive casualties.
Strategists wanted to break the tactical, operational and strategic stalemates forced on commanders on the Western Front by the effectiveness of entrenched defensive infantry armed with machine guns-known as trench warfare. Modern armoured warfare began during the First World War of 1914–1918.
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