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A Mk VI undergoing maintenance, France 1940. The location of the engine, beside the driver, can be seen. The Tank, Light, Mk VI was the sixth in the line of light tanks built by Vickers-Armstrongs for the British Army during the interwar period.
The Mark V had to embody the most advanced features that could still be incorporated into the Mark I hull. The Mark VI should abandon the old hull entirely, reflecting only some general principles of the older tank. [1] On 13 July 1917, Metropolitan, the firm associated to Sir William Tritton, had a wooden mock-up ready of both models. [2]
The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers. Though not adopted by the British Army , it was picked up by several other armed forces, and licensed by the Soviet Union as the T-26 .
VI), [5] Finland (Mk. IVs and Model 33s), [6] Portugal (6) and Ethiopia (3). The design of the German Panzer I light tank was influenced by the Carden Loyd Tankette, due to the German military cooperation with the Soviet Union. Carden-Loyd Mk VI, bought by Finland in 1933 for trials. Tankette was in use until 1941. [7]
On 16 February 1942 the battery encountered KV-1 heavy tanks of the 124th tank battalion of the Soviet 54th Army. The 10.5 cm armour piercing ammunition used by the German gun crews was unable to knock out the KV-1s, and three of the 10.5 cm LeFH 16 auf Geschützwagen Mk.VI(e) self-propelled guns were destroyed. [10]
Looking for a lighter and cheaper tank to build, the General Staff requested alternatives from British industry. To this end, the A13 Mk III cruiser tank, which was to enter service as the "Tank, Cruiser Mk V" (known as the Covenanter), was designed by London Midland and Scottish. Nuffield was, in 1939, offered the opportunity to take part in ...
Vickers Mk.VI light tank, a British tank design from the first years of World War II; 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun, World War II-era U.S. Navy gun used as main armament on six fast battleships; Supermarine Spitfire Mk VI, high altitude Royal Air Force fighter with five-blade propeller; Mark 6 nuclear bomb (1951–1955), an American nuclear bomb
' development '), more commonly known as the E-Series, was a late-World War II attempt by Nazi Germany to produce a standardised series of tank designs. There were to be standard designs in five different weight classes (E-10, E-25, E-50, E-75 and E-100) from which several specialised variants were to be developed.