During World War I a few visionaries saw that new. gasoline-powered weapons
systems could transcend existing muscular limits on land warfare. This sort of
thinking achieved only modest success in 1914–18. although tanks and airplanes
played a significant part in the final offensives. The photograph upper left shows the
most successful World War I tank model, the British Mark V. Below is a photograph
of the “Whippet" (Mark A. 1918) whose speed (12.5 km/hour) and range (100 km)
were expected to allow tank columns to break clean through the German front so as to
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