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In the first release for this month, David Willey looks at the A1E1 Independent, is bigger always better?

How the First Tanks CONQUERED the Trenches

This is the story of the Evolution of the Tank during World War One. Notorious for its appalling human cost, the First World War was fought using the latest technology – and the tank was invented to overcome the brutally unique conditions of this conflict.

Arriving at the mid-point of the war, they would be built and used by the British Commonwealth, French and German armies – with the US Army using both British and French designs.

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Bigger Isn’t Always Better: A1E1 Independent | Tank Chats Reloaded

A bigger tank is a better tank, right? Wrong. Meet the Interwar Vickers A1E1

Independent: a failed prototype, a prototype that proved bigger isn’t always better. Impractical and expensive, it was never accepted into service – but it is said to have inspired equally cumbersome designs including the German Neubaufahrzeug and the Soviet T-35.

Join David Willey, The Tank Museum Curator, as he examines one of the more unusual vehicles in the collection – and discover how it became a focus for political espionage in the early 1930’s.

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