- Battle in the UK military Mk.I tanks of Somme is localized to it to take effect, the self-confident Germany army machine gun and artillery was greeted with shock. Germany you have noticed it was immediately started to develop tanks.
In twists and turns, A7V is the first tank in Germany in the early 1918 has been combat-up.
The tank looked like a [move fort] in the body of the diamond. Not at all the modern tanks.
Normally, the occupant is is 16-18 people, sometimes many more troops to ride depending on the situation, up to 26 people were riding. Therefore, it became the world occupant many tanks.
A7V adopts the chassis of the Holt tractor, a Daimler 100 horsepower four-cylinder liquid-cooled gasoline engines are mounted two groups, was equipped with a Norden felt 57 mm cannon sept and 7.92 mm MG08 heavy machine gun six Ting.
Production of early A7V is Krupp and Roche ring group was responsible.
Bent Krupp made of armor plate a little, due to a lack of resources during the war, armor plate is not a standard homogeneous rolling armor steel plate, was also assembled separately and cut into five pieces.
Krupp's MENG new product TS-0171/35 scale plastic model assembly kit of the German A7V tanks of that due to the A7V total length 229mm, overall width 100mm, fighting compartment and perfectly reproduce the interior of the cockpit, prefabricated track is moving, and the hatch inspection ports can be selected opening and closing state, with etched parts.
A7V was combat-up to the First World War the end, but it did not allow you to convert the large state of the war.
However, Germany has developed a tank in the wake of this, became a tank kingdom.
Currently, A7V tank 506 for only surviving Australia, at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane
Has been exhibited.
Another 563 will create a replica, has been exhibited in Muenster Tank Museum in Germany.
Unfortunately, these two A7V is not a made of Krupp.
MENG Reproduce A7V the (Krupp type) in the plastic model.
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