@@Frisher1 Poland has a few originals ~20.... most being private ownership, but any museum beyond Poland has replicas other then the 2 in Russia museum.
Jak miło jest widzieć tak sprawnie śmigające TKSy. Mam nadzieję, że pewnego dnia uda się doprowadzić do takiego stanu ten jeden, złożony z wielu części 7TP.
En perfecto estado, silenciosas y pequeñas. Ahora entiendo cómo una de esas pudo despachar incluso a PzIV con su 20mm durante la WW2. Saludos desde Chile.
Just watched the Chiefain do a video on one of these. With the 20mm they must have been deadly for that time. Like a very mini-Leopard. Very mini. But same principle.
I can imagine them functioning similarly to the american M-18s later in the war. Superb mobility, delivering deadly fire by surprise and vanishing before return fire can hit them.
@@Yeeren Add excelent camo to this. It is really tiny vehicle, and one could hide it almost everywhere. Try to spot it hidden in the bushes at 200 meters. Impossible.
Pomysł z mini czołgiem , zaczyna być interesujący na wet dziś nowoczesny silnik wielopaliwowy benzyna/alkohol,działko wieloLufowe Gatlinga 35 , pancerz kompozyt (płyty konglomerat szklany :szkło+poliakrylan+folia+szkło ) 2 os.dobra awoionika stabilizator działka obsługa przez okular jak pilot itp.pozdrawim.
Nimble little gun platforms, I imagine being ambushed by these as an infantryman must suck. You can't suppress them with machineguns (at least as effectively as you would suppress troops) and they're small and fast enough to shoot-and-scoot with impunity. A platoon of these roaming around your logistics area must be a nightmare.
Actually you can, the armor was so thin only the front one can stop HMG or anti-tank rifle, and not even whole of it. Grenade would also disable it too, and they had guns that were impossible to aim if not stationary...
@@simonfejta3434 well, they did use the MG 08, and it is often considered a HMG, but if you think a HMG in the sense of the M2, no, the closest equivalent they had was the MG 131 but that was later in the war and only used as an aircraft machine gun. the TKS were generally protected against .30 cal AP over 200m from the front
Not only infantry. In 1939 The 20mm gun could penetrate the armor of all German tanks. Back then even the PzIV had the frontal armor of something like 30mm.
C.... c... c... co to? Inwazja Marsjan czy przedwojenne ripsaw'y? ;-) Ale niziutkie.... Dziś bym takiego wyposażył w drony, jakieś działko wielolufowe i po trzy samonaprowadzające pociski p-panc i p-lot Pancerz mógłby być jakiś kompozytowy, silnik to chyba 2-3 litrowy diesel. Nie wiem czy dziś nie sprawdziłyby się zdalnie sterowane - przynajmniej ze dwa w plutonie. Ripsawy już mają takie wersje. Ale oczywiście "przodująca demokracja" zrobiła też wersje do.... kontroli tłumów :-( Mega pozdro dla BR-TZIP, Pół Plutonu i Szanownych Widzów :-) Oczywiście łapka w górę.
Vor etwa 15 Jahren habe ich bei TVP eine Sendung gesehen, wo es um die Planung, des Nachbaus dieser Tanks ging. Man war auch der Suche nach Überresten, Plänen, Teilen und Fotos. Bardzo dobrze ✔
In 1939 Poland was 5th armour power of the world with 500 of those tankettes, some FT-17, about 130 7TP and some other vehicles. But Poland was young and economically weak state after 123 years of partitions, so can't afford have too much army despite of aggresive neighbours.
@@Grzehu1991 It was not. It was bullshit spread by authoritarian government, but the leadership was so incompetent half of German army was able to defeat Poland in less than 10 days then next 20 were just mopping up operations. Having 130 tanks when even Czech Republic managed ~400 medium ones was kinda bad.
@@KuK137 You write nonsense. Tell me how many days Czechoslovak Republic with 400 tanks defended against few German divisions? If I know well, Czechs fought there all ZERO days. Do you know how long defended west aliies, French, British, Belgian, Dutch armies in 1940? They had 8 month more for war preparations, they had much more tanks than Germans got at that time. And they were defeated in less than 10 days, then next 20 days Germans were just mopping up operations. Can you get it now?
@@Aski2 Yeah 1939-1940 no one knew how to defend against Mobile, combined arms warfare. German doctrine was revolutionary and it showed in how they defeated comparable, or larger forces with ease.
I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that a group of these managed hold off a German attack for some time by using the small size of the tank to their advantage in some corn fields. They were doing hit and run attacks and the corn was higher than the tanks so German couldn’t see them.
Imagine a modern version of these with greater reliability, armour and those new active protection systems. They would be little devils in urban warfare.
A version of the video without the music would be most welcome. We need to preserve footage of such machines, and that *includes* the audio, whenever possible.
