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The British were the first to use a tank in World War I, a Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcellette on 15 September 1916. WWI was the first war in which tanks were used. The Axis forces did not use them very much in that war, in contrast to WWII when German tanks outperformed Allied tanks right to the end.

Tanks were invented by the British during WW 1. In order not to give away to German spies what they were inventing, the developers named them by the codeword 'tank', which at the time only had the meaning of 'something to hold a lot of water in'. When it was finally introduced to service, no-one managed to come up with a fitting and catchy name, so the military decided to stick with the temporary code name they had gotten used to by now.

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