Category: Other Nations
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TKS
Type: Light Tank Nation: Poland Period: World War 2 Location: Muzeum Broni Pancernej w Poznaniu, Poznań, Poland Tiny tank The TKS was a small and highly maneuverable two-man „tankette“ used mainly for reconnaissance and infantry support. In 1929 Poland had purchased a Carden-Loyd Carrier from the United Kingdom and developed two open-topped derivatives, the TK-1…
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Merkava Mk. I/II
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: Israel Period: Cold War Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Do it yourself When the State of Israel was established in 1948, its government was facing the difficult task of creating a capable army as soon as possible because of the country‘s very specific situation. For the following decades the Israel…
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Leopard 2A6MA3
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: Germany / Netherlands Period: Modern Location: Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany Setting the standard The Leopard 2 was developed in the 1970s as a replacement for the ageing Leopard 1. After the joint US/German MBT-70 program had been cancelled, both countries went separate ways – resulting in the M1 Abrams…
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M4A4 FL-10
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Egypt Period: Cold War Location: National Military Museum, Cairo, Egypt Frankentank The M4A4 FL-10 was a not too creatively named up-armed Sherman version that combined the long M4A4 hull with the FL-10 oscillating turret taken from the AMX-13 light tank. This variant was designed and built in France for the Egyptian…
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Grizzly I „Robin Hood“
Type: Medium Tank/Cruiser Tank Nation: Canada Period: World War 2 Location: Vrijheidsmuseum, Groesbeek, Netherlands Full metal footprint The Grizzly I cruiser tank was basically a Canadian licence-built M4A1. It is sometimes falsely referred to as the M4A5, but the Americans had actually applied this designation to the Ram II in February 1942. Apart from a…
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Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: USA/UK/France/Italy/Germany Period: Cold War Location: Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands Arms race at a snail‘s pace The MLRS was a joint American, British, French, Italian and West German cooperation to develop a highly mobile self-propelled artillery system for attacking a target area with large amounts of firepower. Compared to the pinpoint…
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25-pr SP tracked, Sexton II
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: Canada Period: World War 2 Location: Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie, Bayeux, France The QF 25-pounder gun was the standard towed howitzer of the British and Commonwealth forces in World War 2. Since the artillery needed to keep up with the mechanised formations, an improvised self-propelled 25-pounder gun version…
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Type 95 Ha-Gō
Type: Light Tank Nation: Japan Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK During the 1920s the Empire of Japan had aquired a number of foreign tanks such as the French Renault FT and the British Vickers 6-tonner for trials and active service. However, General Sōsaku Suzuki was arguing that Japan should build…
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Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) (Sd.Kfz. 140)
Type: Light Tank Nation: Czechoslovakia/Germany/SwedenPeriod: World War 2 Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany When Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in 1938/1939, the engineering company ČKD in Prague had just completed the first ten vehicles of their new TNH model, which the Czechoslovak Army was calling „LT vz. 38“ (Lehký tank vzor 38 = light tank model…
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Stridsvagn 103C
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: Sweden Period: Cold War Location: Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden The unusual looking Strv 103 was the world’s only operational turretless main battle tank and unique in several other aspects. It was developed in the 1950s to fulfil Sweden’s very specific requirements for defending the densely wooded country with its countless lakes,…