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Piłsudczyk (Polish pronunciation: [piwˈsutt͡ʂɨk], pron. Peewsudchyk) was a Polish armoured train of the early 20th century. It was among the first armoured trains serving the Polish Army and took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918-1919, the subsequent Polish-Soviet War and the Silesian Uprisings .
Armored train "Danuta" in 1939. Armored trains of Poland mostly date to the World War I period. Many of them were modernized over the next two decades, and took part in most military conflicts of the Second Polish Republic, namely the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Silesian Uprisings and the Polish September Campaign in World War II.
Piłsudczyk (armoured train), a Polish armed train of the early twentieth century This page was last edited on 24 May 2020, at 23:20 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The train was armed with 4-6 French 75 mm Schneider field canons, 2 German 105 mm fieldhowitzer, arranged on open platforms, it had 2 armoured cars armed with 4-16 German 7,92 mm Maxim 08/15 machine guns. Part of the train was taken over by Poles during false flag operation of Żeligowski's Mutiny and made into Polish armoured train "Jan ...
Piłsudczyk (armoured train) Polish armoured train units in Britain; Poznańczyk (armoured train) S. Śmiały (armoured train) Smok Kaszubski This page was last ...
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An armoured train (Commonwealth English) or armored train (American English) is a railway train protected with heavy metal plating and which often includes railway wagons armed with artillery, machine guns, and autocannons. Some have also had ports used to fire small arms from the inside of the train, especially in earlier armoured trains.
The following day, Polish Uhlans captured the railway station and the town of Siniaŭka, capturing a military train in the process. [7] At the same time, a technical squadron destroyed bridges, disrupting the traffic between Baranavichy and Luninyets .