7TP TANK
7TP TANK
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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Re: 7TP TANK
some basic info may be found hereYAN 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7TP
or here
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/poland/tank_light/7-tp.asp
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.
Regards, BIGpanzer
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.
Regards, BIGpanzer
No.YAN wrote:My thanks to Renner and Pek, did the TK3 & THE TKS both mount the 20mm gun?. Yan.
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!
I've already mentioned this, right?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
about 600 tankettes were produced in total.Tim wrote:
out of about 700 TK and TKS tankettes 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.