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Vickers Medium Mk II

In service 1925 - 1939

The tank that taught Britain mobile warfare during the 1920s experiments.

Built byVickers

Vickers Medium Mk II
Medium Tank Mk.II with Light Tank Mk.I and Vickers A6 — Imperial War Museums, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Development history

Fast for its day and fully turreted, the Vickers Medium equipped the Experimental Mechanized Force and the exercises that shaped interwar armoured doctrine. Its armour was thin even by 1925 standards, and by 1939 the type survived only as a training vehicle.

Variants

One canonical record, 2 recorded variants.

  1. Medium Mk II*

    1930

    Coaxial machine gun and revised commander's position.

  2. Medium Mk IIA

    1930

    Improved turret with rear machine-gun mount.

Notable actions

  • Salisbury Plain mechanisation trials 1927-1934