Vickers Mark II Medium Australian Army Tank Museum. British Tank

The Australian Army Tank Museum at Puckapunyal, Victoria holds a collection of armored vehicles of interest to the School of Armour which trains personnel at this operational military base. This footage was shot on Sunday 30Oct2022 and is of the Vickers Mark II Medium tank. Fitted with a 3pdr (47mm) turret mounted main gun, the tank also employed a variety of machine guns fitted in the turret and the side hull. It was designed in the early 1920s and is a good example of early interwar tank doctrine whereby tanks were being designed to support infantry movement, travel relatively slowly, and didn t expect to encounter antitank weapons on the battlefield. This example is one of four purchased by the Australian Government that arrived in 1929. The allowance for 4 Hotchkiss 7. 7mm machine guns in the turret was removed to enable Vickers 7. 7mm machine guns to be fitted, as the Australian Army did not use the Hotchkiss.