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Finnish Army employed two armored trains in limited use even during the Winter War and Continuation War (WWII), at the later stages mainly for AA support. One train composed of surviving cars of Civil War and WWII vintage is now an exhibit at Parola Tank Museum .
The Red Army had a large number of armoured trains at the start of World War II but many were lost in 1941. [33] Trains built later in the war tended to be fitted with T-34 or KV series tank turrets. [33] Others were fitted as specialist anti-aircraft batteries. [33] A few were fitted as heavy artillery batteries often using guns taken from ...
Armored train "Danuta" in 1939. Armored trains of Poland mostly date to the World War I period. Many of them were modernized over the next two decades, and took part in most military conflicts of the Second Polish Republic, namely the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Silesian Uprisings and the Polish September Campaign in World War II.
During World War II, 12 Polish armoured trains in Britain were manned, from October 1940 until 1942, by the Polish Armed Forces in the West. They were assigned to patrol the British railways in 1940. They saw no combat and were disbanded in England by July 1943 (November 1944 in Scotland). [1] [2]
The military use of railways derives from their ability to move troops or materiel rapidly and, less usually, on their use as a platform for military systems, like very large railroad guns and armoured trains, in their own right. Railways have been employed for military purposes in wartime since the Revolutions of 1848.
The Danuta, also called Armoured Train Number 11, was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish Army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. The Danuta from 1939. From the left: artillery wagon, infantry assault wagon, armoured locomotive, artillery wagon.
Type 94 Armored train Close up of Type 94 Armored train artillery car. The Type 94 Armoured train was built in 1934 and used by the Imperial Japanese Army forces during World War II. It originally consisted of 8 cars and later added an additional car, for a total of 9. For armament, it had two Type 14 10 cm AA guns and two Type 88 75 mm AA guns.
Armoured Train Number 11 "Danuta" Armoured Train Number 12 "Poznańczyk" Armoured Train Number 13 "Generał Sosnkowski" Armoured Train Number 14 "Paderewski" Armoured Train Number 15 "Śmierć" Armoured Train Number 51 "Pierwszy Marszałek" Armoured Train Number 52 "Piłsudczyk" Armoured Train Number 53 "Śmiały"