Editing Tank (section)

==Combat milestones==
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! Conflict
! Year
! Total<br />number<br />of tanks
! Notes
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|| [[Battle of the Somme]]
|| 1916
| style="text-align: right;" | 49
|| Tanks first used in battle<ref>{{cite book |title=The Somme |last=Sheffield |first=G. |publisher=Cassell |year=2003 |location=London |isbn=0-304-36649-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/somme0000shef }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Philpott |first=W. |title=Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century |year=2009 |publisher=Little, Brown |location=London |edition=1st |isbn=978-1-4087-0108-9}}</ref>
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|| [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai]]
|| 1917
| style="text-align: right;" | 378
|| First successful use of tanks<ref>{{cite book|last=Hammond |first=B. |title=Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle |publisher=Orion |location=London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7538-2605-8}}</ref>{{Clarification needed|date=April 2022}}
|-
|| [[Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux]]
|| 1918
| style="text-align: right;" | 23
|| First tank vs. tank battle
|-
|| [[Spanish Civil War]]
|| 1936–1939
| style="text-align: right;" | ~700
|| Interwar tanks in combat
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|| [[Invasion of Poland]]
|| 1939
| style="text-align: right;" | ~8,000
|| Origin of "''[[Blitzkrieg]]''" term
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|| [[Battle of Hannut]], Belgium
|| 1940
| style="text-align: right;" | ~1,200
|| First large tank vs. tank battle
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|| [[Battle of France]]
|| 1940
| style="text-align: right;" | 5,828
|| Weaker but better commanded tanks successful in combined arms operations{{Original research inline|date=April 2022}}
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|| [[Battle of Kursk]]
|| 1943
| style="text-align: right;" | 10,610
|| Most tanks in one battle
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|| [[Battle of the Sinai (1973)|Battle of the Sinai]]
|| 1973
| style="text-align: right;" | 1,200
|| Combat between [[main battle tank]]s
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