(Source: Janusz Magnuski)ĭuring the interwar years, the company of Vickers-Armstrong introduced a new light tank, the Mark E Type A and B, intended solely as an export tank and not for the British Army. Polish Renault FTs before an attack on Daugavpils in 1920. Nations such as Poland, but also smaller nations, such as Estonia, received some tanks in order to stop the Red Army from advancing any further. Seeing service during the Great War, both tanks were exported after the war to countries that were still involved in the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War.

The other Great War tank that was exported was the Mark IV or V heavy tank. In addition, it was the first tank for countries including the US, Italy, and the Soviet Union, which later created their own designs based on the Renault FT.

Sold to over 20 different countries, the Renault FT was one of the most influential tanks ever. The Renault FT light tank and Mark IV heavy tank were the first tanks to be built in large numbers and also the first tanks to be either donated or sold to other countries.

The idea of exporting tanks is as old as the introduction of tanks themselves.

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