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The difference between 1937 and 1939 pattern webbing, besides materials used in manufacturing, came down to the latter not being issued with a backpack. If troops needed a backpack, pattern 37 haversacks and packs were used. The government placed an initial order of one million sets of leather infantry equipment pattern 39.
Armoured Carrier, Wheeled, Indian Pattern (ACV-IP), known also as Indian Pattern Carrier or other similar names, was an armoured car produced in India during the Second World War. It was typically armed with a Bren light machine gun. Those produced by Tata Locomotives were called "Tatanagars" after the location of the works.
Greece: Used by the British-equipped Greek Armed Forces in the Middle East during World War II and the post-war Hellenic Army, until replaced by US-pattern equipment in the 1950s–1960s. India: Used from World War II to at least the 1960s. [33] Ireland: Used from World War II to the 1970s. The webbing continued to see ceremonial use as of 2004.
WWII Online is set in 1940–1944 World War II in Western Europe. It is a virtual battlefield and a combined arms war simulation. A player can command or crew a variety of accurately modeled aircraft; armored fighting vehicles, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft artillery, four naval vessels, fight as a foot-soldier with a variety of infantry weapons, or play as a paratrooper and drop from either a ...
In 1943 two cars, numbered RR511 & RR512, were painted blue for use by police units. [ 3 ] The Csaba had a 20 mm Solothurn anti-tank cannon [ 4 ] and a coaxial 8 mm Gebauer 1934/37M machine gun fixed on a centrally mounted turret, with 9 mm armoured plating.
The Landsverk Lynx was a series of Swedish 4x4 armoured cars developed by AB Landsverk just prior to World War II. In Danish service it was designated as PV M39 , [ 1 ] in Swedish service as pansarbil m/39 ( pbil m/39 ), or pansarbil m/40 ( pbil m/40 ) for a later Volvo production series.
The Otter light reconnaissance car, known officially by the British as "Car, Light Reconnaissance, Canadian GM (R.A.C.)", [1] was a light armoured car produced in Canada during the Second World War for British and Commonwealth forces.
The Landsverk L-180, L-181 and L-182 are a family of armored cars developed by the Swedish company AB Landsverk during the interwar years. They had a good international reputation for being fast, robust and reliable and were acquired in small numbers by Denmark, Estonia, Ireland and the Netherlands, among others.