Photos Tankettes

[NebrHogger]

These are images of various tankettes used in WW2. Of interest is their small size with proportionately thin armor.

Soviet "Object-217" experimental tankette

Full view of an Object 217

Soviet T-27 being passed by German track

Italian flamethrower tankette - probably in Ethiopia

SdKfz-301 beside a "Goliath"

Italian CV-33s in the Eastern Front (trucks are Alfa Romeos)

French Renault UE in German hands

Italian CV-33

Japanese Type 94 in Soviet hands

Captured Polish TKS

Polish TK-3 tankette

German soldier plowing a French field with a UE tankette

German UE captured by British soldiers in Italy. Notice the German Notek light.

Italian CV-35s in Ukriane

Italian CV-35

Renault UE in German service

French UE that had been used for transporting ammo

UE-630 (F) with tracked trailers

 

[ao_sepia]

in present is German Wiesel AWC!

 

[muck]

With that little ground clearance, I'd hate to sit in one with a landmine underneath.

 

[Fluff]

With that little ground clearance, I'd hate to sit in one with a landmine underneath.

Lol, a decent rifle would and did put paid to these.

Although invented by the U.K., we never took them to war. We developed them into the Bren gun carrier, and into a full light tank, with 15mm gun, plus mg in turret. Overall a reasonable success. Hell you could wonder if we deliberately sold the design to so many schmucks......

 

[muck]

Well, if you will excuse the national bias I tend to think the way the modern Wiesel weapons carrier is deployed is the only set of tactics that offer a reasonable hope for success: hit and run, preferrably from cover to cover. Against this backdrop, it's astonishing to read that tankettes were widely used in mass attacks as "mini-tanks" in the early years of WW2.

 

[ao_sepia]

german took wiesel tested in thailand for army,tested pass,but very expensive,was failed deal!

 

[Fish&Chips]

Well, if you will excuse the national bias I tend to think the way the modern Wiesel weapons carrier is deployed is the only set of tactics that offer a reasonable hope for success: hit and run, preferrably from cover to cover. Against this backdrop, it's astonishing to read that tankettes were widely used in mass attacks as "mini-tanks" in the early years of WW2.

Making a wild guess here: The latter may have owed to the mindset of old cavalry commanders. Swap your horse for a tankette and proceed to business as usual.

 

[Milan Mynar]

Tankette PRAGA AH-IV sv Strv m 37, made before the war in Czechoslovakia for Sweden.