![]() The turret roof was the same thickness as the hull roof and engine deck: 20 millimetres (0.79 in). The frontal armour was 75 millimetres (3.0 in), although the nose plates top and bottom were thinner but angled. The turret armour was 75 millimetres (3.0 in) all round, the hull side armour was 65 to 70 millimetres (2.6 to 2.8 in), and the rear armour, covering the engine, was 55 millimetres (2.2 in). Like other infantry tanks it was heavily armoured from 20 mm at the thinnest it was 78 mm (3.1 inch) at the front, much more than most contemporaries. The turret traversed by hydraulic motor or by hand through 360 degrees the gun itself could be elevated through an arc from -15 to +20 degrees. ![]() The Matilda Senior weighed around 27 tonnes (27 long tons 30 short tons), more than twice as much as its predecessor, and was armed with a 2 pounder (40 mm) tank gun in a three-man turret. The design was based on the A7 (which had started development in 1929) rather than on the Infantry Tank Mk I, which was a two man tank with a single machine gun for armament. The Infantry Tank Mk II was designed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich to General Staff specification A.12 and built by the Vulcan Foundry.
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