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Originally Posted by Pibwl
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Originally Posted by zastava128
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.  |
The tankette on the photo http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/577/048ip.jpg is for sure TK-3 (also known as TK). Or, more precisely, it might be a sub-model TKF (late TK-3 with TKS suspension, as a tankette in Belgrad museum), but it's hard to say.
Michal |
I had a look at your website to help identify the tankettes, and from what I can tell they all seem to be either TK-3 or TKF. There are two sets of relevant photos in the book I mentioned: one shows three of them driving through a village, the other show seven (from a different unit) lined up for review. Of course, that does leave another 6-10 unaccounted for.
Nice site, btw.
Oh, and that photo of the TKS on your site - it's probably a propaganda photo as you suspected. The camo scheme is quite different from that used by all other Croatian tanks, and the "redarstvena straža" - I assume this refers to the Croatian "oružništvo" (gendarmes), not the German Ordnungspolizei - generally had worse equipment than the other branches of the armed forces. So I don't think they would have gotten the more modern tankettes when the Ustaše and Home Guard used the older model.