Key facts
- Type
- Heavy tank
- Place of origin
- United Kingdom
- In service
- 1918 – (last known) 1945
- Wars
- First World War , Russian Civil War
- Designer
- Major W. G. Wilson
- Manufacturer
- Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Company , Birmingham , England
- Produced
- 1917 – June 1918
- Mass
- Male: 29 tons "battle weight", Female: 28 tons
- Length
- 26 ft 5 in (8 m)
- Width
- Male: 13 ft 6 inch (4.1m) , Female: 10 ft 6 in
- Height
- 2.64 m (8 ft 8 in)
- Crew
- 8 (commander, driver, and six gunners)
- Armour
- 16 mm (0.63 in) maximum front, 12 mm sides, 8 mm roof and "belly"
- Main armament
- Male: 2× 6-pounder (57-mm) 6 cwt QF guns with 207 rounds 4× .303 in (7.7-mm) Hotchkiss Mk 1 Machine Gun Female: 6× .303 in Hotchkiss Mk 1 Machine Gun
- Engine
- 19 litre six cylinder in-line Ricardo petrol engine, 150 hp (110 kW) at 1200 rpm
- Power weight
- Male: 5.2 hp/ton
- Transmission
- 4 forward 1 reverse, Wilson epicyclic in final drive
- Fuel capacity
- 93 imperial gallons (420 L)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The British Mark V tank was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank.
The tank was improved in several aspects over the Mark IV, chiefly the new steering system, transmission and 150 bhp engine, but it fell short in other areas, particularly its insufficient ventilation, leading to carbon monoxide poisoning for the crew. Various versions were fitted with a variety of armament including 6-pounder guns and machine guns.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark V tank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.