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The development of tanks in World War 1 began as a solution to break the stalemate which trench warfare had come around on the western front. - wikipedia

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Tanks were an infantry assault support weapon that served a number of functions. They provided infantry with a small measure of protection against forward machine gun positions but more importantly they cleared a path through the most complex barbed wire defenses, opening the way for the infantry advance. The tank was the mobile equivalent of a machine gun or artillery bunker, to be used against enemy strong points out of the range of the attacking infantry. They were slow moving as they didn't really need to be faster than a man could run. The idea was that tanks would break through the heavily prepared front lines and more mobile and reliable cavalry would follow up the breakthrough into open country behind the trenches.

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