Look at those lads waiting to attack Wehrmacht armor in those tin cans. They knew what what a slim chance they had. Determined bunch.
Morning Iris7.
Tankettes sure do seem like a bad idea, someone sure was a good salesman. :-)
Of course we did get the Universal Carrier (Bren Gun Carrier) out of the idea.
The armor described in the article were roughly a match for the contemporary German light tanks (PzK I and PzK II). It wasn't until the PzK 38 (1939) and the PzK IV (medium tank) (1937) that the Germans began to put out superior armor. http://www.onwar.com/tanks/germany/
From an earlier Freeper Foxhole:
"The recently-designed 7TP "czolg lekki", or light tank, the first in the world to be designed with a diesel engine, proved to be superior to German tanks of the same class (the PzKpfw I and II) inflicting serious damage to the German forces, limited only by the fact that they were not used in concentrated groups. They were absorbed by the Germans into their own Panzer divisions at the end of the campaign. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1206264/posts
Sam, I thought you all had done an earlier feature or Polish Tanks and Tankettes, but I couldn't find it with a Google search.