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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 ...
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.
Polish Armament in 1939–45 article is a list of equipment used by Polish army before and during the Invasion of Poland, foreign service in British Commonwealth forces and last campaign to Germany with the Red Army in 1945. [1] The list includes prototype vehicles.
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.
Polski Fiat 508 III Junak PZInż 403 Lux-Sport Polski Fiat 508 III/W Łazik (1936-1939) Polish 7TP tanks during military exercises, before 1939 Sokół 600. It was created by the Polish minister of industry Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski on 19 March 1928 from several previously-existing state-owned factories and scientific institutes, among them the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe and the Ursus factory.
They also twice repelled light German tanks attempting to exploit gaps in Polish positions. [110] 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]
Prototype World War I heavy tank, with similar layout (all-round tracks and armament mounted in sponsons) to British tanks. One completed. [43] E-Series prototypes; Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien tank; K Panzerkampfwagen super-heavy tank (2 incomplete; World War I) Grosstraktor heavy tank – prototypes built by Daimler-Benz, Rheinmetall and ...