The Tank That Tried Too Much Vickers A1E1 Independent The Vickers A1E1 Independent was Britain’s bold attempt at multi-turreted dominance. Designed in the late 1920s, it featured five separate gun positions — one main turret and four smaller ones — each intended to engage different threats simultaneously. It was a machine built for battlefield control, but its complexity made it unfit for war. This prototype was never mass-produced, but its influence echoed across Europe. Soviet designers studie
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The Tank That Tried Too Much Vickers A1E1 Independent The Vickers A1E1 Independent was Britain’s bold attempt at multi-turreted dominance. Designed in the late 1920s, it featured five separate gun positions — one main turret and four smaller ones — each intended to engage different threats simultaneously. It was a machine built for battlefield control, but its complexity made it unfit for war. This prototype was never mass-produced, but its influence echoed across Europe. Soviet designers studie
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A bigger tank is a better tank, right? Wrong. Meet the Interwar Vickers A1E1 Independent: a failed prototype that prototype that proved bigger isn’t always better. Impractical and expensive, it was never accepted into service – but it is said to have inspired equally cumbersome designs including the German Neubaufahrzeug and the Soviet T-35. Join David Willey, The Tank Museum Curator, as he examines one of the more unusual vehicles in the collection – and discover how it became a focus for polit
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In the 24th Tank Chat, David Fletcher looks at the rather unusual Vickers A1E1 Independent. The Independent originated in 1922 with a War Office specification for a heavy tank. Ultimately it proved to be a failed project was abandoned in 1935, by which time it had cost more than £150,000, and sent to Bovington. It is the only tank of its kind in existence. SUBSCRIBE to The Tank Museum YouTube channel: ► http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChl-XKVVBAzoEVsnbOfpcqw?sub_confirmation=1 | The Tank Museum
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