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9TP (code for Polish: dziewięciotonowy polski - "9-tonne Polish") was a Polish light tank of early World War II era. A development of the earlier 7TP tank, it was to replace its predecessor in Polish service in 1940. Due to the outbreak of the war, only a limited number of early prototypes and development versions took part in battles of the ...
The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers. Though not adopted by the British Army , it was picked up by several other armed forces, and licensed by the Soviet Union as the T-26 .
Off road: 30 km/h (19 mph) The Vickers MBT is a series of main battle tanks (MBTs) developed as a private venture by British company Vickers-Armstrongs for export. The design makes use of proven components, such as the L7 gun of the Centurion, the Leyland L60 multi-fuel engine, the transmission and fire control system of the Chieftain.
Power/weight. 14 hp/t. Maximum speed. 40 km/h (25 mph) The P.43 Bis was a proposed Italian heavy tank designed in April 1943. [1] It was created as a direct continuation and replacement to the P26/40 tank; however only a prototype was manufactured at the end of the summer of 1943. The official Italian designation was carro armato ("armoured ...
Ground clearance. 0.508 m. Fuel capacity. 409 litres. Operational. range. 160 km. The High Survivability Test Vehicle (Lightweight) (HSTV (L)) was a U.S. Army light tank manufactured by AAI Corporation. It was developed under the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Armored Combat Vehicle Technology (ACVT) program.
With a combat weight of 56 tons, the Leclerc is one of the lighter main battle tanks in the world, though still considerably heavier than Soviet and later Russian designs; this gives it one of the best power-to-weight ratios among Western tanks (27 hp per ton) and makes it one of the fastest MBTs of its generation (0 to 32 km/h in 5 seconds).
The Polish Second Army entered combat in 1945 during the final Soviet offensive into Germany. In the last month of the war the 1st Polish Armoured Corps equipped with 195 T-34-85 tanks fought in eastern Germany during the battle of Bautzen. The primary tank was the T-34, both in the T-34-76 and T-34-85 versions.
M1917 light tank. Coil and leaf springs, with bogies and rollers. 48 km (30 miles) on road. The M1917 was the United States' first mass-produced tank, entering production shortly before the end of World War I. [2] It was a license -built near-copy of the French Renault FT, [2][3] and was intended to arm the American Expeditionary Forces in ...