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The "tank" used an intense laser beam to disable the optical-electronic equipment of the enemy vehicles. This was created by focusing light through 30 kg of artificial rubies, which made the whole system very expensive to produce. The optics that produced the laser were placed at the end of a silver coated spiral which helped amplify the beam ...
Light tanks were issued to tank battalions (one of the four companies was a light tank company), light tank battalions and cavalry reconnaissance squadrons. The original role of the light tank in these formations was similar to medium tanks and they were expected to engage enemy armor with AP rounds and enemy positions with HE rounds.
Although the U.S. light tanks had proven effective in jungle warfare, by late 1943, U.S. Marine Corps tank battalions were transitioning from their M3/M5 light tanks to M4 medium tanks, mostly for the much greater high-explosive blast effect of the M4's 75mm gun, which fired a much larger shell with a heavier explosive payload.
M3 light tank, (Stuart)12-ton, M4 medium tank (Sherman), 30-ton, 75/76 mm gun; M5 light tank, (Stuart) M6 heavy tank, 60-ton; M7 medium tank (G137) M8 light armored car (Greyhound) M22 Locust tank, light, airborne, 37 mm gun; M24 Chaffee tank, light, 18-ton, 75 mm gun; M26 Pershing tank, medium (originally classified as heavy), full-track, 47 ...
M551 Sheridan – US Army's last light tank, retired in 1997; M41 Walker Bulldog – light American tank in the early days of the Cold War; Commando Stingray – light US tank for export only; Zorawar LT – light tank by India's DRDO and L&T; General Dynamics Griffin; Sabrah light tank – Philippine light tank system based on ASCOD and Pandur II
The ideogram "Chi" meant a medium tank, "Te" a tankette, "Ke" a light tank, "Ho" (artillery) a self-propelled gun, "Ka" an amphibious tank. There was a second ideogram to distinguish the models. The Type 97 Chi-Ha is a medium tank introduced in 1937, the Type 2 Ke-To is a light tank introduced in 1942.
Type 85 Maintenance Engineering Vehicle - Maintenance variant with higher troop compartment, fitted with a light crane and a generator. [2] Type 85 Recovery Vehicle - Has a slightly wider hull and is equipped with a 1-tonne crane, generator and welding equipment. Armed with a 12.7mm machine gun.
The PL-01 was a Polish light tank concept created by OBRUM with support from BAE Systems, based on the Swedish CV90120-T light tank. [1] [2] The concept vehicle was first unveiled at the International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce on 2 September 2013, [3] but the project was scrapped in 2015.