Quote:
Originally Posted by Pibwl
To be precise, a Polish tankette is TK-3 (TK).
I'm interested in Polish stuff - do you know, how many were acquired, and if they were TK-3 or also TKS?
BTW: I like an artillery observer  |
Sorry, I missed your post for some reason.
Well the most recent book on the subject (see the original post) claims they were TKS... but then on one of the photos it's marked as a TK-3.
Local reports always simply call them "Ursus", which is why some older literature assume Croatia had Ursus Armoured Cars - but this has since been disproved.
Anyway there were around 16-20 such tankettes in Croatian service. Some sources mention 18, others say 16 + 4 for spare parts etc.
They don't appear to have seen as much action as the L3 tankettes, and none of them were captured by the partisans until near the very end of the war. Those that were captured were not used in battle anymore, but only for training.
-----------------
If Don is reading this, I missed something in the original list: Desant teams (Tankodesants). Should be available from 3/45 onwards. Armament and organization was identical to their Soviet counterparts, except that there were no PPSh-43 and RPG-43.