A M1A1 Abrams battle tank rolls past the Fox Company Command Post as it heads out in the red/orange desert, painted by the low setting sun. The tank is from the 1ST Tank Battalion. THERE IS ONLY A SCREEN RESOLUTION IMAGE AVAILABLE

Tanks in mass culture. Tanks were first developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front. Their first use in combat was by the British Army in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose.