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Sunday, April 10th 2011, 12:27am

Thai Armored Fighting Vehicles

Tanks:

Vickers 6-ton Type B (30 Stock and 26 Anti-Aircraft types)

60 Vickers Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tanks

Armoured Cars:

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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

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Sunday, April 10th 2011, 12:30am

Vickers 6-Ton Type B: Stock type

CREW: 3 (commander, gunner, driver)

ENGINE: Air-cooled horizontal Armstrong-Siddley V8 4-cylinder (87 b.h.p.) SPEED: 22mph

ARMAMENT: 47mm (3-pdr) gun in turret with co-axial .303" Vickers MG (Duplex mounting).

ARMOUR: Minimum 17mm

WEIGHT: 7.4 tons LENGTH: 15' WIDTH: 7' 11" HEIGHT: 7' 2" GROUND CLEARANCE: 1' 3"

SUSPENSION: 2 sets of double bogeys (on rocker) on each side (cantilever sprung), front drive sprockets, rear idler (drive sprockets higher), 4 return rollers.

TRACK: Manganese steel skeleton type, giving approx. 3,000 miles track life.

[SIZE=1]From http://weirdwars.co.uk/thaiafv.htm[/SIZE]
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

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Sunday, April 10th 2011, 12:33am

Vickers 6-Ton Type B: Anti-Aircraft type

CREW: 3 (commander, gunner, driver)

ENGINE: Air-cooled horizontal Armstrong-Siddley V8 4-cylinder (87 b.h.p.) SPEED: 22mph

ARMAMENT: 2-pdr Pom-Pom.

ARMOUR: Minimum 17mm

WEIGHT: 7.4 tons LENGTH: 15' WIDTH: 7' 11" HEIGHT: 7' 2" GROUND CLEARANCE: 1' 3"

SUSPENSION: 2 sets of double bogeys (on rocker) on each side (cantilever sprung), front drive sprockets, rear idler (drive sprockets higher), 4 return rollers.

TRACK: Manganese steel skeleton type, giving approx. 3,000 miles track life.


[SIZE=1]From http://weirdwars.co.uk/thaiafv.htm[/SIZE]
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

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Sunday, April 10th 2011, 12:34am

Vickers Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank

ARMAMENT: a .303" Vickers RC Class "C" land-serice water-cooled MG, mounted right front, also dismountable (tripod on left front fender)

CREW: 2 (driver & gunner) WEIGHT: 1.5 tons LENGTH: 8' 1" HEIGHT: 4' WIDTH: 6' 6" (over tracks)

ARMOUR: face-hardened, riveted 9mm front & back plates, 6mm sides (all vertical).

ENGINE: Ford Model T 4-cylinder in-line petrol engine (& transmission), 22.5 bhp

SUSPENSION: 4 rubber-tyred bogie wheels each side in 2 pairs, each pair connected by flat leaf spring pivoted to girder track frame, front drive sprockets & rear idlers (at same height).

TRACK: Malleable iron, 5.25" wide

SPEED: 28-30mph MAX GRADIENT: 25 degrees MAX VERTICAL OBSTACLE: 1' 4" TRENCH CROSSING: 4'

WADING DEPTH: 2' GROUND CLEARANCE: 9" RANGE: 100 miles (10mpg).

[SIZE=1]From http://weirdwars.co.uk/thaiafv.htm[/SIZE]
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

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