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Soviet Bt tanks

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Soviet BT series tanks By Sol Mathews In this blog we have covered a few different tanks. We covered the American M4 sherman and the varients alsong with the German Panzer 1. In this post were talking about the work horse of the Soviet Red army armour before and during the early stages of World War Two. The BT was the light tank of the Soviet Red army throughout World War Two. The bt served from 1932-1945. The bt was most notably used in the Russian invasion of Poland and the Winter War between the Soviet union and Finland. The BT series had a production life from 1932 to 1941. The BT series of tanks had five varients. The first varient of the BT Tank was the BT-2. The BT-2 was followed by the BT-5 and the BT-5 was followed by the BT-7 and the BT-7 was followed by the BT-7M. The Finnish even had their own BT tank that was built from captured Soviet BT-7, this BT tank was designed the BT-42.
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The german Pz I

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  Panzer 1 by Sol Mathews Were going to take a break from the allied tanks with this post. This time were taking a look at the German Panzer 1.developed in the 1930's by the Wehrmacht the Panzer 1 was the first iteration of the infamous Panzer series tank. the term Panzer is the shortened version of the German phrase "Panzerkampfwagon". The Panzer 1 is a light "tank", you may see the word Tank in quotes that is because it is classified by the German army as an Armored Fighting vehicle or (AFV).  The Panzer 1 was first designed in 1932 and reached mass production in 1934. It was designed  to be nothing more than a raining vehicle not a combat vehicle. It first saw combat in the Spanish civil war 1936-1939 then would go on to see combat throughout World War Two most notably during the Invasion of Poland, the Soviet Union, and in North Africa. When you think of a tank you think of this Armored vehicle with a large cannon. The Panzer one did not boast a cannon of an...
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