Tank Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
So yea to all the wanks who think that Poland used cavalry to to charge German tanks with lances here some proof of our armored might >:3 This is a pre 1939 photo of both the 1st & 2nd Polish light tank battalions on training maneuvers. The Polish 7TP is basically a heavily modified British Vickers E light tank that was built in Poland under License. At the out break of the war this tank was far superior to any German & many Soviet tanks of the time. Only the Soviet T-26, T-28, & BT series of tanks could match it.
Very few 7TPs were lost to enemy fire & the majority were either abandoned or destroyed by their crews when they ran out of fuel & ammo towards the end of the campaign.
Basic Specs.
Production #s: 118 single turret, 24 twin turret, 4 Iron prototypes
Total Production: 136 tanks
Crew: 3 (gunner, driver, & commander)
Armor thickness: Front: 17mm Side / Rear of the Engine Compartment: 13mm Top / Lower Hull: 10mm Bottom: 9.5mm Top of the Engine Compartment: 5mm Turret: 15mm Turret Top: 10mm
Armament: X1 37mm wz.37 Bofors L/45 gun (80 rounds AP & HE)and 7.92mm wz.30 TMG (3960 rounds)(or two 7.92mm wz.30 [or 7.92mm wz.14 for very early versions] TMG's in twin turret variant)
Power-plant: Sauer VBLDb Diesel / 6-cylinder / 110hp ""NOTE this makes the 7TP the worlds 1st diesel powered production tank""
Max. road speed: 37 km/h (23 mph)
Fuel consumption: 80 - 100 liters /100 km
Combat weight: 9,400 kg (9,900lbs)
Length: 4.56 meters
Width: 2.43 meters
Height/to the turret's roof: 2.30 / 2.123 (2.19) meters
Track width: 267mm
Tracks centers spacing: 2.016 meters
Ground clearance: 381 mm
Ground pressure: 0.58 - 0.6 kg/cm2
These looks just like horses to me HAHAH. But the poles totally did have a Calvary brigade charge. I would have shat myself a little if I saw this if I was in the Wehrmacht though.
Yea Polish cavalry charged German tanks only once & that was to escape encirclement & regroup with a larger Polish unit. They did not attack the tanks just rode past them shooting at any infantry that might have been in the way.
& what really scared the Wehrmacht the most was the Polish Armored trains. A whole German battalion was reported to have been wiped out by just one of those armored monsters as 1 German called it in his journal. I believe it was armored train Nr. 54 ("Groźny") AKA Deadly if my Polish is correct :P
More info on that particular armored train
Derela.republika.pl
I'd hate to be the guy in the back with all that dust and exhaust fumes xD