The Tactical Problem Of The Tank

Thin from the first months of the first world war it was evident that the tactical problem to be resolved, once that the war of movement and the armies that was ended they had jammed on a system of trenches long hundreds of kilometers, it was that to overcome the joining boned machine gun-thread.

These two means, together with the ground upset by the preparations of artillery, they prevented the infantry the advance in mass on the hostile trenches and, also acknowledged to get a local victory to fully exploit the success.

Both the agreement and the Central Empires tried to give an answer to this problem, particularly after the huge slaughter of the battle of Verdun (1916).


While the answer of the Empires (and particularly of the German) to this problem was substantially to tactical level, modifying the formalities of employment of the infantry, the agreement looked for instead of developing a weapon that was not busy from the machine guns and they could easily overcome the boned thread, also on the tormented ground of the battlegrounds. The German solution brought to the development of the light machine gun, that of the agreement to the development of the armed wagon.