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The Australian tanks were designated the Leopard AS1, and were based on the Leopard 1A3 which had been built for the German Army. The main difference between the Australian and German tanks was the inclusion of a SABCA fire control system, equipment to allow the tank to better operate in the tropics, additional storage boxes on the sides of the ...
6 Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns) 7 Anti-aircraft weapons. ... List of Australian military equipment of World War II. 1 language ...
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The Australian Army formed its first armoured units in the late 1920s when two independent Tank Sections equipped with Vickers Medium tanks were formed in New South Wales and Victoria. [1] An armoured car regiment was formed in 1933 based on part of the 19th Light Horse Regiment (the remaining part of the 19th later became a machine-gun ...
The museum hosts two rare Australian Cruiser tanks (two of six left in the world), an AC1 Sentinel and a hybrid AC1 with an AC3 turret, presented as an AC4. The AC1 Sentinel was purchased and given to the museum by Wargaming Inc , producer of the World of Tanks tank game.
Australian howitzer-equipped Matilda tank in combat at the Battle of Tarakan. Historic units. Pre-World War II. 1st Tank Section (Australia) 1st Light Tank Company ...
The Australian Army was founded by a merger of the six separate armies of the six independent Australian British colonies. When those forces merged officially on 1 March 1901, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, all six colonies had troops already engaged in combat in the field.
Australian and Dutch POWs at Tarsau, Thailand, in 1943. Nearly 29,000 Australians were taken prisoner by the Axis during the war, the bulk of them members of the Australian Army. [246] During the fighting in the Middle East and Greece, 7,116 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner by German and Italian forces.