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According to Defence Industry Europe on January 16, 2025, the Italian Ministry of Defence announced plans to procure up to 380 new tanks based on the German KF51 Panther main battle tanks (MBTs), including recovery, rescue, and engineering variants, to improve the lethality, mobility, and survivability of its mechanized forces at the IAV 2025 ...
The seven internal fuel tanks have a capacity of 2,655 L (701 US gal), five in the fuselage and two in the wings. An additional 1,710 L (452 US gal) of fuel can be carried in the three external fuel tanks. [11] T-50 trainer variants have a paint scheme of white and red, and aerobatic variants white, black, and yellow. [44]
In 1923, the Czechoslovak Army acquired a blueprint for a tank with tracks and wheels from the German engineer, Joseph Vollmer. Skoda, ČKD and Tatra produced the first two prototypes of the Kolohousenka series under the designation KH-50, KH for Kolohousenka and 50 for the engine size in horsepower. [1] [2] [3]
Development of the T-50 started as the SP project (Soprovzhdeniya Pekhoty, 'Infantry Support') in 1939 at the OKMO design bureau in the S.M. Kirov Factory Number 185 in Leningrad, under the direction of, and headed by, L. Troyanov and I. Bushnevov, to create a light tank replacement for the T-26 and BT tanks. Initial prototypes, called T-126 ...
Production for Poland was completed in 2002. A total of 233 tanks were delivered. Malaysia ordered 48 PT-91M Pendekar which were delivered in 2007–2009. 2016 Poland — The PT-16 is a further development of PT-91 Twardy. Claimed proposed upgrades include improved armor, armament, and mobility. Only non functional mock-up ever built.
The Ausf F heavily armoured infantry assault tank (MG armed), a.k.a. PzKpfW I nA verstärkt or VK1801, was an up-armoured Pz I with the Schachtellaufwerk (inter-leaved track wheels) of the Ausf C, and a turret mounting two machine-guns. Thirty Ausf F tanks were built between April and December 1942, eight of which were sent to the Eastern Front ...
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The M-50 was similar to the WWII-era British Sherman Firefly tank in that it possessed the original smaller type of Sherman tank turret (as used by US Shermans which carry the original 75mm M3 tank gun) which was fitted with a large counterweight at the turret's rear end to balance the weight of a longer and heavier tank gun. The first 50 units ...