After industry, machine-gun mechanism, the human cost is very high during the wars, resorted all armies during the First World War trenches, and promotion of Ktvip lines of barbed wire and fortifications. And for a period not in front of the progress and the acquisition of territory, but attacks Jbhoep and formations huge foot soldiers in the form of human waves, hoping to enable the part, even if few of them to cross the no man's land and the interval between the trenches friendly and those hostile to engagement with the enemy in battles Tlahmip, and that was done under the a barrage of heavy machine-gun fire and mortar shells and heavy artillery.
Thus began the armies actively seeking to find ways to work around this node, and had been assigned to a secret project for the British Navy to develop the tank and the training of crews as it ships the wild, Ashraf First Lord of the Odmiralip "Winston Churchill" on the ships land, came the first of these efforts in September of the year 1915, making the first successful model of a British tank "Little Willie". And to maintain the confidentiality of the new vehicles was quoted as water tanks, and pulled here by the name in English and formally since December of the same year.
Register the first use of tanks in the battles with the participation of two tanks of the model Mark -1 British-made in the fighting during the battle of "Fleurs Korcillt" (part of the Battle of the Somme) at September 15, 1916, and developed a French tank Schneider. C. E1, and used them for the first time in 16 April 1917. While the first successful post to a crowd of tanks in the battle of the "Cambrian" in the November 20, 1917, and had a crucial role in the battle of "Amiens", when Allied forces managed to penetrate the German positions with the support of armor. On the German side is not only producing a limited number of tanks Aye .7. In. Which did not exceed 20 tanks until the end of the war.
It was the first confrontation between the tanks of the parties on April 24, 1918, in "Vilrs Britoniuks" When Tjabht -4 Mark three tanks with three British German A-.7. In. Resorted Germans of many actions to reduce the impact of armor allies, and they dug trenches petition, and found a presentation of certain munitions influential, as crafted to provoke some obstacles vertical, in order to be able to target the belly of the tank to observe the fragility of Tdrieh in front of light weapons, but it was not enough to change the course of the war . Emerged as new classifications, the tank was "male" arms medium and heavy guns relatively, while the tank was "female" provide a large number of light machine guns in order to protect the first and the face of the enemy infantry as its main task. Suffered these tanks primitive of many problems, not speed exceeding 13 km / h at the most, and had a reliability is generally low for the large number of repair systems and mechanical art, as an example Suffice it to say that he is out of the 150 tanks Mark -1 rallied in the Battle of the Somme, it was not only able 9 tanks only at the stage of starting the attack, as a result of mechanical problems.