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mineman65 Registered: February 2005 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 124	Finnish tank, (Soviet T-26 or British Vickers 6-ton tank, i can't tell) advance to Petrozavodsk, future Äänislinna, in October 1941
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Drone_pilot

Registered: February 2004
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Tue 12 4, 2005 16:29

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Finland ordered some 30 Vickers 6 ton tanks from Britain in late 1930's. Tanks were ordered unarmed and were not equipped with weapons when the Winter War started in 30.11.1939. One Vickers company took part in the first Finnish tank battle in February 1940 - because of technical problems and inexperienced crews Vickers company suffered heavy losses - 7 tanks destroyed and 1 disabled. After the war several improvements were made to the tanks. The Soviet Union manufactured Vickers 6 ton tank as T-26E. Finnish Forces captured a large number of T-26s in the Winter and Continuation Wars.

So Mineman it would be very difficult to say what tank it is.

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mineman65

Registered: February 2005
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Tue 12 4, 2005 18:04

Yes, there might be some small differences, but i'm not expert on those. The only real tank battle in Winter War (Honkaniemi) was failure for finns (my info is 6 tanks lost from 13 and 3 kills), but in early stages of Continuation war 1941, finns knew already much better how to use Vickers 6-ton and it was quite succesful. From the year 1940 they begun to install 45mm guns instead of original 37mm and was named T-26E

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Wed 13 4, 2005 07:00

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Fascinating little history, thanx

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