jan 1, 1916 - France (1916) Medium tank – 400 built

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n 1915, the French Army’s Section Technique du Génie (STG) Engineer Technical Section, attempted to improve the cross-country mobility of armored cars by building ten armored tractors on Filtz agricultural tractors. These were intended to crush or cut through barbed wire entanglements, but their combat debut at Verdun in the autumn of 1915 demonstrated their poor mobility in rough terrain.

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