When was the tank born and how was the first Chinese tank born?

In August 1915, the world's first tank was introduced in Britain.

In August 1915, the British took Ernst Swinton's suggestion to try the first prototype tank ---Little Nomad". A pair of tail wheels protrude from the rear of the body, which are used for steering and also for balancing.

The history of chariot fighting can be traced back to ancient times, and China had horse-drawn chariots that evolved from hunting chariots as early as the Xia Dynasty. However, the birth of the tank was the result of the requirements of modern warfare and the development of science and technology.

During the First World War, in order to break through the defensive positions composed of trenches, barbed wire, and machine-gun fire points, and break the deadlock in positional warfare, the warring sides urgently needed to develop a new type of organic combination of firepower, mobility, and protection. In 1915, the British took Swinton's suggestion and used automobile, tractor, gun manufacturing and metallurgical technology to produce a prototype of a tank.

In 1916, a type of tank was produced, with a diamond-shaped outline, rigid suspension, protruding gun mounts on the tracks on both sides of the hull, two tracks around the hull from the top, and a pair of steering wheels protruding from the rear of the car. The tank has a crew of 8 people, and there are two types, "male" and "female". The "male" was armed with 2 57-mm guns and 4 machine guns, and the "female" was armed with only 5 machine guns.

On September 15, 1916, 49 tanks were put into the Battle of the Somme for the first time. At that time, in order to keep it secret, the British described this new type of ** as a "tank" (English "tank") for delivering water to the front line. As a result, the name is still used today, and "tank" is a transliteration of the word.

This tank, called the Nomad I, walked on tracks, could gallop across the field, cross obstacles and trenches, was not afraid of bullets and bullets, and did not stop anything, and soon broke through the German defense line, thus opening up a new era of army mechanization. Since then, hundreds of thousands of tanks have been built around the world, becoming the main operations of armies, marines and airborne forces in various countries**.

The tank is a tracked armored combat vehicle with powerful direct firepower, high cross-country mobility and solid protection. It is the main assault weapon and the basic equipment of armored troops in ground warfare, mainly used to fight enemy tanks and other armored vehicles, and can also suppress and eliminate anti-tank **, destroy field fortifications, and annihilate living forces.

1915 year.

In August 1915, the world's first tank was introduced in Britain. The earliest tanks, despite their thin armor and slow travel, immediately showed their extraordinary power as soon as they entered the battlefield. Battle of the Somme, the British army put 18 tanks into battle.

This steel monster crushed the insurmountable barbed wire, trenches, and machine guns of the infantry under the tracks, and quickly took the crown of "King of Land Warfare". The remarkable results have promoted the rapid development of tank manufacturing technology.

In 1917, the first tank units were born in Britain. The Englishman Fuller summed up the experience of tank combat in World War I and put forward the theory of "tank victory" and mechanized warfare. In World War II, the Germans swept across Europe with a blitzkrieg with tanks as the main assault force.

The largest tank battle ever held in Kursk, the Soviet Union, was held, with more than 10,000 tanks and self-propelled guns used by the Soviet Union and Germany.

After the war, the main battle tanks rose together and competed for glory. In particular, the entry of high technology into tanks has made this land tiger even more powerful. At present, the main battle tank has been developed for 3 generations.

In the 1991 Gulf War, the two warring sides committed a total of 8,500 tanks. Actual combat has once again proved that despite the fact that tanks are 80 years old, they still play an important role on the ground battlefield. A new generation of main battle tanks with higher mobility, greater firepower and better protection is still being developed in some countries.

In order to produce products as soon as possible, the factory adopted the policy of "infrastructure construction, installation, and trial production", and began trial production of tanks in September 1958. The first tank of New China was developed on the basis of the Soviet T-54A medium tank, which was a new model that was finalized in the mid-50s of the last century, condensing the most advanced tank technology in the world at that time.

China's first tank was copied one by one based on a Soviet tank. It is very difficult to develop it step by step by working overtime, starting from scratch.

During World War I. Hehe!! Friend.

The world's first tank came from the British.

First world war.

In the early days, a British military correspondent named Swinton saw the British and French forces with his own eyes during front-line interviews.

Sakura's repeated charges were repulsed by the well-defended Germans, and many soldiers fell in pools of blood, ** very badly. He began to wonder how good it would be if the tractor was dressed in a thick coat of steel armor so that it would not be afraid of bullets and bullets, but could attack the enemy's positions. Therefore, he proposed to put the "Holt" type tractor on iron armor and put it into a new type of combat vehicle and put it into the battlefield base mill.

This suggestion was quickly gained by the military. Soon, this kind of offensive and defensive ** was produced in a water tank factory in the United Kingdom. This is the world's first tank.

At the time, for secrecy, researchers called it a "water tank". Because the English word for "tank" is tank, the name of the tank was called and is still used by various countries today.

The tank was designed to overcome the trenches (tracks) and machine-gun fire (tank guns and armor) of the First World War, and the name armored vehicle better describes its nature.

The tank first appeared in the UK, for the sake of secrecy, with the code name "tank" (bucket), and later the tank became the proper name for heavy tracked armored vehicles.

In World War I, the combat effectiveness of tanks was not strong, and their deterrent power was greater than their combat effectiveness. Before the end of World War II, tanks were shaped in a variety of strange shapes, with various freaks such as multi-turret, multi-story turret, and super heavy.

In 1956, China received technical information and samples of the T-54A. At the same time, with the help of Soviet engineers, the construction of China's first tank factory was completed in Baotou. By December 1958, the first Chinese-made T-54A, assembled from Soviet parts, rolled off the assembly line.

By 1959, when Factory 617 had begun production entirely independently, 32 Chinese-made T-54A vehicles appeared to the public for the first time at the 10th anniversary parade of the founding of the People's Republic of China held in Beijing on October 1 of that year. At the end of 1959, the tank was officially designated the Type 59 tank.

Type 59-1 medium tank.

The main combat performance of the Type 59-1 medium tank: combat weight: tonsUnit power: kilowatt tons.

Unit pressure: kPa.

Maximum speed: 50 km/h.

Main **: 100 mm rifled tank gun.

Auxiliary**: mm anti-aircraft machine guns, mm parallel machine guns, mm course machine guns Ammunition base: 34 rounds of 100 mm shells, 500 rounds of mm machine gun rounds, 3000 rounds of mm machine gun rounds.

Armor type: turret steel cast armor, hull steel armor plates.

In the 20s of the 20th century, the warlord Zhang Zongchang at that time copied the American "Stuart" tank, but it was not put into mass production. In the mid-20s of the 20th century, Zhang Zuolin, the then warlord of the Feng family, copied more than ten French Renault FC31 tanks in the Northeast Arsenal. But it was the Type 59 tank of the new China that was really mass-produced.