had been investigated for potential usage it was not until november of NUMBER_TOKEN that they would get a formal order for the tank designated as aNUMBER_TOKENv which was to be a vehicle that was able to be used as both a tank but also have a variant that could be used to move equipment and materials around the battlefield known as the uberland wagon while this kind of request would not seem to be too complicated this actually presented a very difficult situation for the designers because of the requirement for the design to also serve as a transport vehicle this meant that the designs like the british mark NUMBER_TOKEN would not work and therefore volmer chose to use a traditional tractor design the comparison to a tractor design was justified due to the fact that several caterpillar hulk tractors were either seized or purchased in order to study their suspension for usage in the aNUMBER_TOKENv ultimately this form of suspension was chosen for the vehicle and the overall design was finalized and proposed to the vpk of the ohl while the suspension had reduced the trench crossing ability of the aNUMBER_TOKENv it gave it an increase in speed due to it having two engines instead of one in december NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN vehicles of the design were ordered but just one month later the order was reduced to NUMBER_TOKEN. in terms of armament the tank was originally proposed to use the NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter becker automatic cannon which would have fired tuf anti-tank rounds this weapon is similar to the weapon found in battlefield NUMBER_TOKEN which is commonly used on the gunner positions of aircraft and torpedo boats the becker was never equipped to the aNUMBER_TOKENv due to problems with the round not being able to penetrate armor and was ineffective with emplacements due to this the tank would proceed forward with being designed with either male or female variants the males having cannons with the females just having machine guns the next problem with the armament was what the vehicle would actually be armed with as many calibers were discussed before ultimately settling on the NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter maxim nordfeld gun due to production problems with the maxim nordfelt design tanks would only be able to have one gun and four fit the rear-facing cannon following the reduction of the production number the ohl finally issued their requirement for the armor thickness of the vehicle they wanted a tank that would be relatively immune to field guns which was determined by the aNUMBER_TOKENv committee to be NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters the only problem with this was that this armor thickness would cause the tank to be extremely heavy and the suspension and its engines would not be able to handle it even with different proposals for a smaller design the weight would not change and therefore it was decided to have the bow armor remain at NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters the rear with NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters but the rest of the tank would only have NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters of armor the entire vehicle was about NUMBER_TOKEN meters long NUMBER_TOKEN meters wide and almost NUMBER_TOKEN meters tall as you would expect this caused the tank to be front and top heavy finally it appeared that the tank was getting somewhere in its path to production even with its apparent flaws however this would change with the capture of a british mark ii in april of NUMBER_TOKEN. the rhomboid design of the tank had greatly impressed officers who were studying it who remarked on its ability to give the tank excellent mobility while the ohl had already approved the design of the aNUMBER_TOKENv and
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