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> The most successful have always mounted those guns on turrets just like a naval ship. To be fair, at the time tanks were created and (not quite immediately,
by CRConrad 4y ago
> The most successful have always mounted those guns on turrets just like a naval ship.
To be fair, at the time tanks were created and (not quite immediately, but rather soon) adopted the rotating turret for their main gun, that turret wasn't all that age-old a tradition at sea, either. Wasn't Ericsson's Civil War-era Monitor the first with that? (If not the very first, then among the first to deploy it in combat, I'm fairly sure.)
But yeah, their greatest proponent in WW1 Britain being the Admiralty is of course an amusing connection. (But I suppose if Churchill had been, say, Minister of Agriculture, then their greatest proponent would have been the Department of Agriculture.)
- cestith 4y agoIndeed it wasn't an ancient technology, but in the 19th and 20th centuries warfare adapted at a blistering pace compared to earlier centuries. Three to five decades of advancement was everything. Rifled barrels, self-contained cartridges, breach loading, tractors, planes, radios, morphine, acriflavine, and barbed wire were all fairly recent technologies still finding their practical and doctrinal uses in warfare.