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Medium Tank Mark B | |
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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 medium 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.