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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 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 ...
After the German and Soviet attack and fall of Poland in 1939 it was copied entirely from captured 7TP and TKS Polish tanks and later used by the Soviets for their tanks (including the T-34 and T-70). As a part of Polish-British pre-war military cooperation, the patent was sold for one zloty to Vickers-Armstrong. It was produced as the Vickers ...
Such tanks were used by Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II for training. Its restoration began in May 2014. In September 2013, three new vehicles were acquired from Norway - a wreck of Panzer III medium tank, an M47 Patton main battle tank and an M88 Recovery Vehicle. It was the second time when the museum worked together with ...
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.
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
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.