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The 7TP was the Polish development of the British Vickers 6-ton Mark E tank licence. Comparing to Vickers, the main new features of 7TP were: a better, more reliable and powerful diesel engine , a 37 mm anti-tank gun , thicker armour (17 mm instead of 13 mm on the front), modified ventilation, the Gundlach tank periscope , and a radio.
Poland designed tanks from those it acquired and the Polish armoured forces were given the single turret 7TP tank which was the best Polish tank available in numbers when the war broke out, derived from the Vickers Mark E tank. The Polish forces with the 7TP Light Tank series put up a valiant defense against the invading German Army in 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. It was also the direct predecessor of the Polish 7TP tank.
7TP jw light tank (based on Vickers 6-Ton light tank (also known as Vickers Mark E light tank)) 10TP light fast tank (Only one prototype built) T-70 light tank (In period between July 1943 to January 1945, Polish units in the east ( Ludowe Wojsko Polskie ) used 53 T-70s.
In the area of Słupecka and Sękocińska streets, an anti-tank gun crew from the 40th Infantry Regiment, not expecting their own tanks, fired two shots at one of the 7TP tanks, damaging it. [111] Ultimately, the Poles succeeded in pushing the enemy back and reclaiming the front line along Opaczewska Street, including the building of the Free ...
Polish Bofors AA gun and a bombed column of Polish Army during the battle of Bzura TKS tankette 7TP, a Polish modern light tank. The Polish Army was fairly strong in numbers (~1 million soldiers), but much of it was not mobilised by 1 September, as the Polish government, advised in this by the British and French governments, constantly hoped ...
The Vickers Six Ton Tank was the basis for the Polish 7TP, the Soviet T-26, and was a major influence on the Italian M-11 and M-13 series and the Czech LT-35. The six-ton Vickers tank was not adopted by the British Army. A Vickers Medium Mark II tank
The T-26 (along with the Polish 7TP) was a Soviet development of the British Vickers 6-Ton (Vickers Mk.E variant) tank, which was designed by the Vickers-Armstrongs company in 1928–29. The simple and easy-to-maintain Vickers 6-Ton was intended for export to less technically advanced countries: the Soviet Union , Poland , Brazil , Argentina ...