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The WW2 Tank Stories display has a Matilda in desert Caunter camouflage scheme [e] In the UK, the Imperial War Museum also has a Matilda - listed as a Mk V - with additional turret ring armour on display at their IWM North site. The Royal NSW Lancers Museum in Parramatta in Sydney has a MKII "ACE" fitted with a 3 in. howitzer in place of the 2 ...
This table compares tanks in use by the belligerent nations of Europe and the Pacific at the start of the Second World War, employed in the Polish Campaign (1939), the Battle of France (1940), Operation Barbarossa (1941), and the Malayan Campaign (1942).
Medium tank: 139-195 75 mm howitzer, 2 × 8 mm Gebauer MGs 43M Turán III: Medium tank: 1-2 75 mm gun, 2 × 8 mm Gebauer MGs 43M Zrínyi II: Assault gun: 72 105 mm howitzer 44M Zrínyi I: Tank destroyer: 1 75 mm gun, 6 × Nebelwerfer 41 rockets were also mounted during testing 44M Tas: Heavy tank: 2 prototypes (destroyed by bombing before they ...
A Matilda being used to tow a Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber which made a belly-landing at RAF Luqa, 16 July 1942. The Malta Tanks was a unit designation for an independent Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) unit made of a mixture of British tank types deployed to Malta in World War II.
The first two purpose-designed infantry tanks, the A.11 Matilda Mark I armed with a heavy machine-gun and A.12 Matilda Mark II with a heavy machine gun and 2-pounder anti-tank gun. The Mark I had been ordered in 1938, but it had become clear that a better-armed tank would be needed and the Mark II, was already under design and would be ordered ...
Reconnaissance tank Turret with 0.303 Vickers machine gun and 0.5 inch Vickers machine gun or turret with 15 mm and 7.92 mm Besa machine guns. Three Deployed Matilda II: Infantry tank: 40mm QF-2 pdr gun and 7.92 mm Besa coaxial machine gun. Four deployed Cruiser Mk III: Cruiser tank: 40mm QF-2 pdr gun and 7.92 mm Besa coaxial machine gun. Eight ...
Tortoise heavy assault tank – a very heavy armoured tank for use in breaching fixed defences in Europe; Valiant – a heavily armoured but small assault tank intended for use in the war in the Far East. Alecto – a self-propelled gun on a light tank chassis; TOG1 – tank design suitable for crossing shelled areas and trenches; TOG2
British 12-ton tank (type unclear – likely Vickers Medium Mark II, possibly Cruiser Mk I, or remotely Matilda I) T26 (88 provided by Soviets in 1938) BT-5 (4 provided by Soviets in 1938)