Monday, June 16, 2014

Tanks Origins Revealed



Since the beginnings of the XX century some researchers were set the problem of the motorized movement on the battleground, even if, up to the first world war nobody had almost understood what the true tactical problem would have been produced by trench - boned thread - machine gun.
Particularly some ideas (only on paper, more literary than techniques) were express at the English writer H.G. Wells, in the description of his "armored tortoise." Who faced instead the problem from the technical point of view it was the lieutenant of the Austrian Imperial army Günther Burstyn, that prepared a project and a model for the Motorgeschütz, a vehicle armored that it moved on tracks and it had the principal armament in rotating turret.
Nevertheless neither the literary hypotheses neither the technical projects convinced States you Increase some necessity of similar vehicles.

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