It's a conversion of the Bren gun carrier, only just proof against small arms fire!Ceme across this
From the El Alamein Military Museum.
So, how did this armored oddity come about, and what could for example, the BEF do with these in France, for mobile AT?
Has a bit more punch than the Mk VI light.
Try the Soviet Light Tank crewmen, they didn't get a firewall evenDue to the fact the engine ran down the centre of the back of the carrier it would be difficult to operate and bloody hot on the naddgers of the gunner/loader!
Or Britain could have bought the Vickers E 6 ton light tank instead of the machinegun armed light takes.It's a conversion of the Bren gun carrier, only just proof against small arms fire!
Looks like a stuart (American M3 light tank) turret.
Due to the fact the engine ran down the centre of the back of the carrier it would be difficult to operate and bloody hot on the naddgers of the gunner/loader!
It would have made a small change if they used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Tank_Mk_VII_Tetrarch
in place of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Tank_Mk_VI#Tank,_Light,_Mk_VIB
as they at least had the ability to face off against the PZ 1 and II.
Try the Soviet Light Tank crewmen, they didn't get a firewall even
Knowing what the Egyptians did with the wreck of a Kittyhawk, it may just be a bad restoration.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ans-express-anger-lost-world-war-two-fighter/
there was a prototype Vickers Light Tank with a 2pdr in a revised turret with an open top - but it never went further than that. For mobile AT duties the Australian portee version of the universal carrier would do the job and cheaper.
But really this is going to take a pretty big departure in pre-war thinking - which can be done if the Army re-orientates itself away from the frontier focus to the continent again.
I would expect a lot more German tanks destroyed!Getting back to the OP, I suspect if the BEF had more 2pdr armed light tanks in France in 1940, its probably just means these get abandoned in the retreat to Dunkirk.
The prototype with the 2pdr appeared in 1935 and was extensively tested by the MWEE in 1938 and also by the 9th Royal Hussars with indications that everyone found it a useful design - although the suspension needed strengthening (not uncommon in the later mark Vickers light tanks). The design was rejected most likely because it did not fit with the idea of armoured reconnaissance. - British Light Tanks, David Fletcher (Osprey).
Getting back to the OP, I suspect if the BEF had more 2pdr armed light tanks in France in 1940, its probably just means these get abandoned in the retreat to Dunkirk.
I would expect a lot more German tanks destroyed!
If the Light Tank Mk VI, 2-pdr Tank Destroyer (Fletcher's Description) are still assigned an armoured reconnaissance role then I doubt there's that many more knocked out panzers - tactically they're usage might not change all that much from the MG/15mm Besa armed versions in the role so their impact might not be very much.I would expect a lot more German tanks destroyed!