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  Tankette
Tankette is the magazine of the Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicle Association and is the direct means of communication with members.
From the roneo'd copies of the 1960's with hand painted colour samples to the professional glossy litho printed example of today Tankette has always sought to supply the membership with the information either written, as scale drawings or as photographs, that is needed to produce a particular model.
Tankette also contains reviews and news relevant to the hobby, as well as private adverts from members either seeking information or a rare kit, or if they have surplus kits or books for sale.
www.totalmodels.co.uk /newsdesk/pages/index_37.shtml   (0 words)

  
  Achtung Panzer! - Polish Armor 1939
In mid 1929, Poland purchased single Mark VI tankette and it was tested on June 20th of 1929 at Rembertow near Warsaw.
The tankette was driven onto the wheeled chassis, the tracks removed and a chain drive was taken from the tankette drive sprocket to the rear axle of the trailer.
Tankettes were the main equipment of the Polish armored units.
www.achtungpanzer.com /pol/poltk.htm   (1734 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tankette
A tankette was a type of small armoured fighting vehicle resembling a tank, intended for infantry support or reconnaissance.
Tankettes were designed and built by several nations between about 1930 and 1935, and saw some combat in the Second World War.
The tankette was driven onto the wheeled chassis, the tracks removed and a chain drive was taken from the tankette drive sprocket to the rear axle of the trailer.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tankette   (677 words)

  
 MarineStore.com - Tankette Marine Head Treatment System
Tankette is adjustable so you can have just the right amount of chemicals automatically added to the intake water.
Tankette eliminates these sources by treating the water before it reaches the head (and your nose).
Tankette is effective in both freshwater and saltwater environments.
www.marinestore.com /tankette.html   (0 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tankette
They usually had no turret (and together with the tracked mobility, this is often seen as defining for the concept), or just a very simple one that was traversed by hand.
Japan meanwhile became one of the most prolific users of tankettes, producing a number of designs useful for jungle warfare.
The concept was later abandoned due to limited usefulness and vulnerability to antitank weapons, and the role of tankettes was largely taken over by armoured cars.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tankette   (294 words)

  
 Japanese Armoured Units on Java Island, 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tankettes were overrunning the enemy MGs and artilleries, and fired on the enemy positions and vehicles.
This tankette is supposed one of 48th Recon Regiment.
While the tankettes engaged with the enemy, the main body went around in the forest and attacked the enemy in the flank.
www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/java_armour.html   (2781 words)

  
 Achtung Panzer! - Polish Armor 1939
By September of 1939, TK-3 tankettes were very used up and badly needed repairs but instead of being used for training as planned, all were used in combat.
In June of 1933, prototype of up-armored version of TK-3 tankette with thicker armor, designated as STK and eventually as TKS was produced.
TKS-D was a modified and rearmed TKS tankette and two prototypes were produced in April of 1937.
achtungpanzer.com /pol/poltk.htm   (1734 words)

  
 Japanese tanks and tankettes of WW2
The hull of the tankette used a riveted construction, with the engine and driver at the front and the small turret at the rear of the hull.
The primary role of the Type 94 was to carry supplies in the battlefield area but it was often used in the reconnaissance role for which it was totally unsuited as its armour could be penetrated by ordinary rifle bullets.
It was often used to tow a tracked ammunition trailer in a fashion similar to the British and French tankettes of this period.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-armour/enemy/jap_ww2.htm   (610 words)

  
 With tankette model 37 to Prague
During the spring of 2006 it was decided that both tankettes would be delivered to Prague in conjunctin with their yearly Tank Day, in the end of August.
Escorted by Czech Military Police the tankettes were taken to central Prague where Czech national television did a piece of the tankette and the deal.
Saturday was the day of the yearly Tank Day and the tankettes were displayed together with their Czech "cousines" - the LT-38 and the Hetzer - before nearly 30.000 visitors.
www.pansarmuseum.se /en/pragresa.aspx   (0 words)

  
 Great Britain's Tankettes
Martel undertook the idea and in 1925 built the tankette shown above in his garage.
In 1926, as the interest in the one man tankette began to die out, Carden-Loyd produced this two man tankette.
The suspension was later modified to the addition of 5 return rollers on each side.
mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/BritishTankettes.html   (0 words)

  
 Lone Sentry: U.S. Forces Encounter Old Jap Tankette (Intelligence Bulletin, September 1945, WWII)
Report on the Japanese Type 92 (1932) tankette encountered by U.S. forces on Luzon, from Intelligence Bulletin, September 1945.
Though it had not been expected that this obsolescent 3-ton, two-man tankette would prove other than an extremely vulnerable vehicle, actual inspection of a captured specimen indicates that it is even less useful than anticipated.
A further drawback is the high rate of air flow through the vehicle, which should make it very difficult to operate during a smoke concentration.
www.lonesentry.com /articles/jp_tankette/index.html   (332 words)

  
 Japanese Ordnance Material of WW II   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Japanese, though, came to also use the tankette in their infantry divisions, performing a direct reconnaisance role either as a substitute for the horse cavalry, or as a supplement to what was available.
The chief Japanese tankette during World War II was easily the Type 97, also known as the "Te-Ke" (I believe this was just a Japanese phoneticizing of the abbreviation "TK" for "tankette"-- as opposed to tank-- a designation which was also retained by the Poles for their vehicles of this class).
The Japanese generally did not group their tankettes into units larger than a company, which would be anywhere from 10 to 17 vehicles, and a total of at least 80 men including the organic supply and maintenance personnel and the command staff.
www.wlhoward.com /museum/id577.htm   (11766 words)

  
 Polish self-propelled guns 1930-39
In 1931, the TK-3 tankette was accepted for the Polish Army as a standard equipment.
It was far development of the British Carden-Loyd tankette, which was advertised also in a light SP-gun variant, with a short-barrel 47 mm Vickers QF infantry gun.
It differed from the TKS tankette by using side clutches in a transmission and bigger idler wheels, which were last roadwheels as well.
derela.republika.pl /tkd.htm   (2216 words)

  
 Polish tankettes TK-3 and TKS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tankette (small reconnaissance tank) TK (also known as TK-3) was the Polish design based upon Polish-improved Carden-Loyd tankette chasis.
TK-3 tankettes were supposed to be fitted with 20mm guns in 1940.
Armoured draisine TK or TKS - a tankette on a special chassis for riding on rails.
derela.republika.pl /tk3.htm   (665 words)

  
 MagWeb One-Drous Chapter: War of Resistance (1937-1941): Japanese and Chinese Equipment
tankettes were designed for the cavalry support role and had a crew of three.
Originally conceived as an AFV to pull a tracked 1.5 ton supply trailer into combat, this tankette had a poor weight to track area ratio causing it to often run afoul in off-road conditions.
Later versions of the tankette mounted a 37mm gun and had 16mm armor in critical spots.
www.magweb.com /sample/ww2/japequip.htm   (2091 words)

  
 Axis History Factbook: T-37 (Soviet Union)
During 1931, the eight amphibious Carden-Loyd tankettes which had been purchased in England under the 1931 negotiations were used as the basis for a new light amphibious tank.
The hull configuration was almost identical to that on the original Carden-Loyd tankette.
The gear-changing and steering methods were identical to those adopted on the T-27 tankette.
www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=5301   (594 words)

  
 Going to War in a "Tankette"?? - World Affairs Board
Tanks have had turreted mounted cannons of the same size as those used in WW2 from mid 1917 onward with the advent of the FT-17/37.
Tankettes were not tanks (although some were made into mini tank destroyers) They were designed as mobile machine gun nests to support the infantry and cavalry on a WW1 style battle feild.
Italy's problem wasn't timing her force was built for the wrong war, just like every one elses but she didnt have the industrial might or material to recover.
www.worldaffairsboard.com /land-forces/38675-going-war-tankette.html   (0 words)

  
 Stan Gajda - Ponape Type 97 Tanklette Restoration
The Tankette is drivable and we plan to take it out on the road sometimes.
The colors it is painted in are duplicates taken of remaining paint in hidden areas on the two tankettes and the other tanks.
I drove the completed T97 tankette down the road to Ace Hardware and parked it outside for all to see over the whole morning.
www.pacificwrecks.com /people/visitors/gajda/tanklette.html   (1167 words)

  
 N.E. Marine : F.C.P. Products Solves head odors with head-o-matic tankette (tank-ette)
N.E. Marine : F.C.P. Products Solves head odors with head-o-matic tankette (tank-ette)
Written up in the March issue of PRACTICAL SAILOR and MOTOR BOATING
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www.tankette.com /fmntac.htm   (288 words)

  
 Polish TKS tankette   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The TKS tankette was the improved model of TK-3 tankette which was the Polish design
Started in 1933, 274 were built before the war in September 1939.
24 TKS tankettes were armed with 20mm wz.38 FK-A gun.
tanxheaven.com /zbc/TKStankettezbc/TKStankettezbc.htm   (37 words)

  
 DELTA GREEN 1939-1945 : EQUIPMENT : ARMORED FIGHTING VEHICLES: Carro Veloce 33 Tankette   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Designed before the war, the CV 33 tankette was hopelessly obsolete when Italy entered the war in 1940.
As a tankette, the CV 33 had only two crewmembers, a driver and a gunner, and had no turret with the main armament in the superstructure of the vehicle as in an assault gun.
While light enough to be easily transportable (one of the few armored fighting vehicles to be able to be carried by aircraft), the CV 33 simply did not have either the armor nor the firepower to take on the modern tanks of the British in North Africa.
home.comcast.net /~furrylogic/cv33.html   (112 words)

  
 PART 1/35 T-27 Tankette
Brought into service in February 1931, the T-27 was a significantly adapted version of the Carden-Loyd Mk IV tankette.
Soviet engineers were not fully satisfied with the design and so they made changes to the dimensions of the hull, the running gear and the machine gun mount in order to make the tankette more suited to the Russian environment.
The division and battalion markings were masked and sprayed in Matt White, and the tankette number was hand painted in Matt Black (Humbrol 33) using a 5/0 brush.
www.internetmodeler.com /2003/january/armor/T27.htm   (1604 words)

  
 Modern Mini-tanks
The original one-man tankette was intended to be a one-man armoured personnel carrier (or possibly a mechanised horse!).
In other countries the tankette was more often seen as a cheap ultra-lightweight tank-equivalent and many Carden Loyds formed the basis of turreted vehicles.
According to most authors tankettes were to prove useless on the battlefield.
www.angelfire.com /art/enchanter/minitank.html   (2170 words)

  
 TK   (Site not responding. Last check: )
TK was designed as an ammunition tractor but it was used as tankette in China.
The idler wheels of the modified model were replaced to large one and grounded in order to improve the stability of the chassis.
TK was mainly deployed in the Independent Tankette Companies.
www3.plala.or.jp /takihome/tk.htm   (83 words)

  
 N.E. Marine : F.C.P. Products Solves boat head odors with head-o-matic tankette (tank-ette) also bilge oil cleanup with ...
Instantly solves all boat head odors from the input line, head odors from the toilet bowl
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When no more blue color shows in the head's bowl, simply "pop" another "Bullet" into the tank-ette.
www.tankette.com   (0 words)

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