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7TP TANK

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Post by YAN » 02 Feb 2007, 17:48

Hi, I am putting together data on Polish AFVs and have run into difficulties with the Polish 7TP, together with the Vickers E tank I cannot find any realy good data, I am short on The weapons they both used and the armour on them and the amount of ammo the carried. some totals would also be helpfull. Thanks Yan.

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Post by Renner aus Schlesien » 02 Feb 2007, 20:46

YAN wrote:Hi, I am putting together data on Polish AFVs and have run into difficulties with the Polish 7TP, together with the Vickers E tank I cannot find any realy good data, I am short on The weapons they both used and the armour on them and the amount of ammo the carried. some totals would also be helpfull. Thanks Yan.
some basic info may be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7TP
or here
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/poland/tank_light/7-tp.asp


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Post by YAN » 06 Feb 2007, 16:37

My thanks to Renner and Pek, did the TK3 & THE TKS both mount the 20mm gun?. Yan.

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Post by BIGpanzer » 13 Feb 2007, 01:56

Czołg lekki 7TP:
two-turret variant: 2x7.92mm Browning wz.30 with 6000 shells
single turret variant - 1x37mm wz.37 [80 shells] + 1x7.92mm wz.30 [3960 shells].

Czołg lekki Vickers E:
mod.A - 2x7.92mm Browning wz.30 with 6600 shells
mod.B - 1x47mm Vickers [49 shells] + 1x1x7.92mm wz.30 [5940 shells].

Czołg rozpoznawczy TKS z nkm 20A - 1x20mm FK-A wz.38 [250 shells]. 24 copies were reequipped from TKS.

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Post by Tim Smith » 13 Feb 2007, 12:34

YAN wrote:My thanks to Renner and Pek, did the TK3 & THE TKS both mount the 20mm gun?. Yan.
No.

The TK-3 had only a machine gun.

The standard TKS also had only a machine gun.

In 1939 a new version of the TKS was developed which had a powerful and effective 20mm cannon - however, only 24 of these were completed before the fall of Poland in October 1939, out of about 700 TK and TKS tankettes produced in total.

I read somewhere on the net that one of these 20mm equipped TKS knocked out no fewer than 7 Panzer 35(t)'s on 19 September, during the Battle of Warsaw!

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Post by BIGpanzer » 13 Feb 2007, 20:28

Tim wrote:
In 1939 a new version of the TKS was developed which had a powerful and effective 20mm cannon - however, only 24 of these were completed before the fall of Poland in October 1939
I've already mentioned this, right? :wink:
Tim wrote:
out of about 700 TK and TKS tankettes produced in total.
about 600 tankettes were produced in total.
TK-3 with 1x7.92mm Hotchkiss wz.25 - 301 were produced.
TKD with 1x47mm wz.25 Pocisk - 4 were produced.
TKF (TK-3 with 46 hp engine Polski Fiat 122B) - 18 were produced.
TKS (improved TKF with new armored hull, suspension, weapon mounting) - 282 were produced
TKS z nkm 20A - 24 were reequipped from usual TKS. It was planned to reequip almost all TKS into TKS z nkm 20A, but that was not done because of German aggression.

TKS z nkm 20A ["tank destroyers"] were used by 71st armored squadron [4 tankettes], 83rd armored squadron [3 tankettes], 11th company of recon tanks [4 tankettes], 101st company of recon tanks [4 tankettes], squadron of recon tanks of 10th cavalry brigade [4 tankettes] and squadron of recon tanks of Warsaw armored brigade [4 tankettes]. 20mm automatic gun FK-A wz.38 had rate of fire 320 shells/min [muzzle velocity 870 m/s] and could penetrate 20-25 mm armor from 500-600 m.
Loss of 7 Pz35(t) was not confirmed by German sources, but four tankettes from 71st armored squadron [from Great Poland cavalry brigade] supported Polish cavalry [7th regiment] during the attack 14.09.1939 and could destroy 3 German tanks.

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Post by YAN » 07 Mar 2007, 18:01

Many thanks to Renner, PeK, Bigpanzer & Tim for the help, Yan.

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Post by YAN » 08 Mar 2007, 18:48

Brossel your data on the TKS was great, how are you on the 7TP, I find it very confusing with the Vickers E and single and double turrets, and various other modifications, Thanks Yan.

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