List of combat vehicles of World War I

This is a list of combat vehicles of World War I, including conceptual, experimental, prototype, training and production vehicles. The vehicles in this list were either used in combat, produced or designed during the First World War.World War One saw the start of modern armoured warfare with an emphasis on using motor vehicles to provide support to the infantry.

British Mark I male tank

Key

"Little Willie", the first ever completed tank prototype
Renault FT, the war's most produced tank
"Mother", the first in the line of British heavy tanks of the war
*Concept
Experimental prototypes
Entered service post-war

Tanks

Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare. They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy. The few tanks that Germany built were outnumbered by the number of French and British tanks captured and reused.

France
Germany
Italy
Russia
United Kingdom
United Kingdom & United States
United States

Armoured cars and trucks

A group of Belgian Minerva armoured cars

Most of the armoured cars of the war were produced by building armoured bodywork over commercial large car and truck chassis.

Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
  • HtK46 armoured car †[54]
France
Germany
Ehrhardt E-V/4
Italy
Ottoman Empire
  • Hotchkiss armoured car[54]
Poland
  • Pilsudski armoured car[65]
Russia
United Kingdom
United States

Self-propelled artillery

France
Germany
Italy
Russia
The Gun Carrier Mark I could transport a British field gun over difficult ground but in practice were used more for carrying supplies
United Kingdom
United States

Armoured trains

Austria-Hungary
  • MAVAG Typ AE panzerzug[116]
Belgium
  • Light armoured train[117]
Belgium & United Kingdom
  • Heavy "Anglo-Belgian" armoured train[118]
Germany
  • Deutsches Heer armoured train[119]
Russia
  • Zaamurets armoured train[120]
South Africa
The LNWR built two armoured trains for the defence of the east coast of England
United Kingdom

Other vehicles

Canada
The Renault FT TSF carried a wireless telegraph set but no armament
France
Germany
Italy
  • Gussalli assault car[130]
Russia
Mark IX, the world's first specialised armoured personnel carrier
United Kingdom
United States

See also

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