Interwar Tanks

During WWI Britain had far and away the best tanks, she was the inventor of the tank and at the forefront of tank development.

However, by the end of World War One tank development became mostly theoretical in Britain, where officials were uncertain about investing time and money into the future of tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.

The British adopted a kind of that's that, we don't need those anymore, attitude at the end of the war with only the likes of Liddell Hart and Fuller giving them any serious thought, and been mostly ignored by the government at the time.

At the very end of the war and into the 1920's it was the French who developed the most advanced tanks, such as the Char 2C, and in fact all contemporary tanks were mostly based on an earlier French design, the Renault FT17. The first Italian and Russian tanks for instance were adapted directly from the Renault FT17.

However, into the 1930's it was the Germans who were at the cutting edge of tank development, even utilizing the locally ignored works of Liddell Hart and Fuller, as they secretly amassed their giant mechanized army under the leadership of Adolf Hitler from 1933.

(Weights are in long tons and kilograms.)