why not mark 1-esque tank design?

Is there any ways possible,to preserve Mark I(the classic tank)'s design till now? Can it Effectively made the OTL Tank design massive overhaul on the 1920's never happened?
 

NothingNow

Banned
It's inherently a far less efficient design, and a much more tempting target than a conventional design, which has such wonderful things as a 360-degree traverse for the main gun.

Really, I can't see how you'd prevent someone from experimenting with a turreted design given everything else at the time, and from there, the huge advantage it'd present would be obvious.
 
Some later tanks have a touch of Mk 1 about them. The Char B1 looks like a Mk1 with a turret on top, as does a Churchill and ARL44 with tracks that wrap around the top of the hull and protude out the front. But as NothingNow said the inherent superiority of the turret was obvious from very early on in tank development.
 

Hoist40

Banned
The MkI was designed for a very limited and specific role, crossing No Mans Land during WW1. It has to cross large trenches, crush barbed wire and since the trenches provided good protection from in front the tank was to climb on top of the trench and fire in both direction clearing it of the enemy.

It was thought that once No Mans Land was crossed that the regular Army formations would take over. However the same magazine rifle, machine gun and shrapnel shell existed which created trench warfare so in order to prevent that tanks were developed to operate in a more wide open conflict.

As to modernized Mk 1 type, those tanks developed with the idea that trench warfare would return most resembled the WW1 tanks
 

sharlin

Banned
You could possibly fit a turret to a Mark I style machine as they did in the Indiana Jones movie but then you'd be limited in what you could put up top because of the width of the tank limiting the size of the turret ring, meaning you would have to have a fairly small gun.
 
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