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by phylo_roadking » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:14 pm
Strangely enough, nowhere where I've ever read anything about the WWI British range of "Mark" tanks have I seen anything about gun range. I'm assuming the range would be a lot less than the original naval version though, because I DO know the barrel length was shortened twice, once for original fitment in the Mark 1s, and a second time before fitting to the Mark IVs and all following Marks. So you can reckon that range would certainly be less....and THEN there's the question of effective range - would it have the same range of elevation as in its Naval installation? Also, there's the question of sighting, something I don't recall reading - mostly I've read about use rather than design. Certainly there'd be no blind-firing or directed fire, but more fire-on-acquisition...so whatever they used for sights may simply not have let them accurately fire at targets out to that range!
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