As time passes, some linguistic notions and constructions for designating new objects cause an involuntary smile.
As an example, I will give the names of the very first tanks, the British MK1. They were all exactly the same in terms of crew size, armor thickness and speed. But these tanks alone, officially (!) Called "males" had a weight of 26 tons. And others, weighing 25 tons were called "females".
This difference in the weight of the tanks was due to their various weapons. The "females" had only machine gun weapons, a total of 8 units. A "males" equipped with two guns Hotchkisa, with four machine guns. Hence the difference in weight, because 57 mm guns are much heavier than machine guns. And the weight of projectiles and bullets, again, varies greatly. Namely, these ammunition and were transported ammunition.

At the same time, as already briefly stated above, the number of crew members did not change depending on the tank’s armament - 7 people in both cases. And the thickness of the armor did not exceed 10 mm (frontal part) and 6 mm from the stern. This was quite enough to ensure reliable bulletproof booking of the first tanks.

Looking ahead, I will say that even in the early 40s, during the Second World War, the same Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front used special "anti-tank" bullets against the Red Army tanks! They were fired from machine guns. And very successfully hit light Soviet tanks.
Those. special means of fighting tanks appeared almost immediately after they first declared themselves in the battle on the Somme. The industry has established the release of "reinforced" bullets, although there were more than enough conventional guns "against tanks" in the army ...

I note another funny and little-known linguistic fact associated with the first tanks. Probably everyone knows that the name tank is translated from English as "capacity". And that it was chosen by the military bureaucracy for conspiracy. Thus, the Britons tried to disguise the sending of their armored vehicles to Russia. So, the British genius was not satisfied only with this disguise under the tank. For some reason, the inscription “Caution Petrograd!” Was inscribed on containers with tanks.
I do not understand at all what the logic of the counterintelligence event lies in. But I am sure that the German agents from this “Beware, Petrograd!” Definitely had a dump of the head ...
And the term "tank" soon became already official, even less than a year after the first use. The British themselves called among themselves their tanks “diamonds” because of their parallelogram shape.