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guardman


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War at Home - part of the BBC's WW1 centenary event, has kicked off with an online feature on tanks - which members of this forum kindly helped with http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25109879 

Hope it is up to scratch!



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I've just seen it, very nice. The photo of the tank with what looks like a snorkel and flotation system midway down the page is something I've not seen before - anybody got any other information on this? Did it actually float....?

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Yes it floated. There is another picture in the same sequence of it in the water (though it is a smallish dot). My sense of it is they were designed to cross the Rhine during the 1919 offensive. Obviously the idea was never tested in combat

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That would be the MKIX possibly the worlds first purpose built tracked APC...

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Monday 24th of February 2014 07:12:02 PM

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Here is the photo of the amphibious tank:-

 

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