Light Tanks
Though lightly protected, Light Tanks proved essential to success in World War 2 and have gone on to retain some of their tactical value today.
There are a total of 70 Light Tanks in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
2007
In 2007, the Russian Army adopted the 2S25 (also known as "Sprut-SD") series of tracked armored vehicles formally categorized...
1940
The Hungarian Toldi Light Tank was born from the Swedish AB Landsverk L-60 Light Tank, a tracked, turreted, armored fighting ...
1936
The 7TP series was of a Polish light tank design, based on the British Vickers-Armstrong 6-ton light tank (Mark E). With war ...
1936
The AH-IV was an export tankette design of Czech origins that appeared in 1936. Agile and fast, the machine gun-armed combat ...
1972
The Scorpion series of light tank has seen many major variants produced both for local use and for export. The Scorpion chass...
1971
The Alvis FV107 Scimitar is a light armored reconnaissance platform primarily in service with the British Army. The vehicle i...
1952
The AMX-13 Light Tank was designed to a new post-World War 2 French Army requirement. In the post-war years, France was rebui...
1969
Since the tactic of utilizing airborne troops came to lethal fruition in World War 2, there always lay the challenge of outfi...
1985
The BMD-2 was a further evolution of the BMD-1 line of amphibious light infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) intended to be air-d...
1990
The BMD-3 was a further installment in the relatively successful line of light amphibious, air-droppable infantry fighting ve...
2005
The biggest challenge to modern-day war planners has always been properly outfitting their airborne-minded soldiers (classica...
1966
The Soviet military was first major military power to widely adopt the concept of an "armored fighting infantry carrier" thro...
1982
The Soviet Union introduced the concept of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) with the adoption of its BMP-1 in 1966. The ty...
1987
Soviet Union engineers and factories garnered much experience in the massive armor battles against German and Axis forces tha...
1932
Like many of the military powers prior to World War 2, the Red Army adopted a series of light, fast tanks intended to overwhe...
1933
The BT series of Soviet "Fast Tanks" was born out of a John Walter Christie design in the early 1930s featuring an American s...
1934
In the latter portion of the 1920s, the Soviet Army began looking to modernize their fleet of aging tanks. As such, it held a...
1988
The Stingray Light Tank was developed as a private venture by Cadillac Gage (now Textron Marine & Land Systems) with the budg...
1935
The L3 series of tankettes primarily served the Italian Army in the years leading up to World War 2. By this time in history,...
1940
The Carro Armato L6/40 series was manufactured by the Italian concern of Fiat-Ansaldo from 1939 to 1944 to which 283 examples...
2001
The CV90120-T is related to the Swedish family of armored vehicles known under the collective designation of "Combat Vehicle ...
1923
The Fiat 3000 was a highly-modified Italian version of the French FT-17. Modifications included (but were not limited to) sid...
1936
Like other powers of the 1930s sensing future regional unrest across Europe, the French enacted a modernization program of th...
1939
The Hotchkiss H39 superseded the H35 series light tanks in French Army service, being produced in more numbers than her forer...
1971
The Jagdpanzer SK 105 Light Tank was a tank destroyer developed by Saurer-Werke for the Austrian Army during the Cold War. It...
1935
The "tank" received its baptism of fire in World War 1 as large, cumbersome lozenge-shaped tracked vehicles lumbering about t...
1941
The M3 / M5 series (commonly known as the "General Stuart") was an Allied design classified as a light tank and appeared thro...
1936
The LT zv 35 was of Czechoslovakian origin and was developed just before open hostilities in Europe during World War 2. After...
1939
This light tank system initially began as a Czechoslovakian creation in the form of the LT vz 38 but - as with the previous L...
1918
The M1917 6-ton light tank was an American license-production copy of the highly successful French-designed Renault "char leg...
1943
After witnessing the successes of the German airborne divisions to take over most of Western Europe in the opening salvos of ...
1944
The Light Tank M24 Chaffee was the successor to the M5 Stuart light tank. Though appearing late into the Second World War, th...
1951
The M41 was designed and developed as the direct successor to the World War 2-era M24 Chaffee light tank. The M24 served a va...
1968
The M551 General Sheridan (or simply "Sheridan") was a light-armored and heavily-armed portable tank system utilized by the U...
1951
The French Panhard EBR armored car of the 1950s actually maintained design origins in the years leading up to World War 2. Pa...
1977
The French concerns of Renault and Panhard submitted designs to fulfill a 1970s French Army requirement for new 4x4 and 6x6 a...
1952
The PT-76 was developed shortly after Second World War. The weapon system is designated as a "Light Amphibious Tank" featurin...
1931
The Renault Char D1 served the French Army for a time leading up to World War 2. Her origins and use lay in a World War 1 men...
1917
The Renault FT-17 series of light tank was an evolutionary design in the field of combat tanks that would go on to influence ...
1935
Few could have known what the inception of the Panzer I into the German Army inventory during the middle portion of the 1930s...
1936
While development of the of the Pz.Kpf.W. I (Panzer I) light tank (Sd.Kfz. 121) was still ongoing, the Pz.Kpf.W. II (Panzer I...
1939
Development of Hitler's Panzers was key to his early overwhelming victories in the East and West. The Panzer I light tank bec...
1958
The Swedes have long held a history of capable indigenous arms production and this was showcased to good effect prior to and ...
1934
While remaining a neutral power throughout World War 2, Swedish authorities saw fit to modernize and stock their military inv...
1938
With certain Swedish Army modifications in place (mainly a standardized 37mm main gun), the Strv L-60 Light Tank became the r...
1928
The T-18 was the first Soviet-designed and produced tank. Russia initially lacked the internal expertise to design, develop a...
1931
As was the norm after World War 1 in all industrialized nations around the globe, Soviet warplanners set about to upgrade the...
1941
The T-60 light scout tank was designed and developed to replace the outclassed T-38 series of amphibious light scout tank and...
1942
In October of 1941 - four months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union through "Operation Barbarossa" - engineers of ...
1983
Attempting to modernized its extensively outdated armored corps consisting of World War 2-era M4 Sherman Medium Tanks and M3/...
1942
Development of the Type 2 began in 1928 and was the Army's attempt to turn the Type 95 Kyu-Go light tank into an amphibious v...
1963
Yet another in the long line of NORINCO designs inspired by Soviet-era purchases, the Type 62 (classified as a "light tank") ...
1963
The Chinese NORINCO-built Type 63 is in many ways a relative to the Soviet-designed and built PT-76 troop carrier. The weapon...
1985
The PT-85 is a light amphibious tank system (may also be known as the "Type 82" or "Type 85") in service with the North Korea...
1936
The Type 95 "Ha-Go" was a light tank design primarily utilized by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War 2. She wa...
1937
Developed from an early Imperial Japanese Army request for a light tank in 1937, the Type 97 Te-Ke was simply outmatched agai...
1928
The Vickers 6-Ton (Mark E) was a light tank evaluated by the British Army but ultimately rejected. When the British Army pass...
1996
While light tanks have lessened their presence on the modern battlefield over time, the US Army began looking at adding such ...
2006
The massive expansion programs of the Chinese military in recent decades has added a new, all-modern amphibious tracked vehic...
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