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
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
The 7TP was deemed very effective, it's just that they had so few of them.
indeed. Tho many good & promising Polish weapon projects from firearms to tanks & planes were always hindered if not canceled by an unnamed special commission from the Polish government :/ I can never find ant more info on this commission either so its rather puzzling to me :/