List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles

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This is a list of armoured fighting vehicles developed during the interwar years between the end of the First World War (1918) and the start of the Second World War (1939). There is some overlap with tanks that served in the early part of the Second World War.

See also history of the tank, list of armoured fighting vehicles.

Austria

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Armoured cars

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  • ADAZ (never built)
  • ADG (never built)
  • ADGC (unknown)
  • ADGK (never built)
  • ADGZ (52)
  • ADKZ (2)
  • ADSK (6)
  • Heigl Panzerauto M.25 (4)
  • Heigl Panzerauto M.26 (8)

Light tanks

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Tankettes

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  • ADMK Mulus (334)

Czechoslovakia

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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  • ČKD P-II-a (1)
  • ČKD P-II-b (1)
  • Kolohousenka - wheeled/tracked design (about 5)
  • LT vz. 34 (also known as ČKD P-II) (50)
  • LT vz. 35 (also known as Škoda Š-II-a) (298)
  • LT vz. 38 did not enter service before German occupation
  • Praga MT (2)
  • Praga YNH (never built)
  • Škoda Š-II (also known as S.U) (1)
  • Škoda Š-II-b (1)

Medium tanks

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  • ST vz. 39 (also known as ČKD V-8-H) (2)
  • Škoda Š-II-c (also known as Škoda T-21) (1)

Heavy tanks

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  • Škoda Š-III-6 (1)
  • Škoda Š-III-8 (1)
  • Tatra T-III (2)

Amphibious tanks

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  • ČKD F-IV-H (2)
  • Škoda ŠOT (1)

Tankettes

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Armoured cars

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  • Praga I (unknown)
  • Praga R-4 (4)
  • Škoda Fiat Torino (12)
  • Škoda PA-I (2)
  • Škoda PA-II 'Želva', also known as OA vz.23 (12)
  • Škoda PA-III (16)
  • Škoda PA-IV (<10)
  • TN SPE-34 (3)
  • TN SPE-37 (4)
  • OA vz. 27 (15)
  • OA vz. 30 (51)

China

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China purchased several hundred armoured combat vehicles during the 1930s. The exact model and numbers are difficult to obtain[1]

Tanks

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Tankettes

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  • CV-33 (20-100) - purchased in 1936, numbers disputed.
  • Carden Loyd tankette Mk VI - armoured machine gun carrier, 24 purchased in 1929, 29 in 1936.

Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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  • BA-6 (unknown) - purchased from Soviet Union, armed with 45 mm gun turret.

France

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Armoured reconnaissance tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Super heavy tanks

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  • Char BB (never built)
  • Char Lourd - improved Char 2C (never built)
  • FCM F1 (never built)

Self propelled guns

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Armoured cargo carriers

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Armoured cars

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Germany

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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  • Durchbruchwagen I (unfinished)

Armoured cars

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Italy

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Tanks

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Tankettes

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Armoured cars

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  • Fiat AB-611 (10)

Japan

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Amphibious tanks

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Tankettes

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Chemical warfare vehicles

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Armoured cars

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Poland

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Armoured cars

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Tankettes

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  • TK-1,TK-2 - first 2 prototypes
  • TK-3/TKS (around 540 across both models)
  • TKF (around 20)
  • TKS-B (experimental) (1)
  • TKW (experimental) (1)

Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Amphibious tanks

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Artillery tractors

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Tracked artillery tractors

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  • C2P (196-310) - an unarmoured vehicle based on tankette
  • C6P, C6T - first 2 prototypes of C7P
  • C7P (151)
  • PZInż 152 (unknown)

Half-tracked artillery tractors

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Wheeled artillery tractors

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  • C5P (also known as PZInż 342) (5)
  • PZInż 302 (>2000)
  • PZInż 343 (4)

Self-propelled guns

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  • PZInż 160 (never built)
  • TKS-D (37 mm anti-tank gun) (2)
  • TKD (47 mm gun) (4)

Soviet Union

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At the end of the Russian Civil War, Soviet Russia had a stock of imported Mark V (called Rikardo, after the Ricardo engine), Whippet (Tyeilor, after the Tylor engine), and Renault FT (Reno) tanks, and an assortment armoured trains.

By the time of the German invasion on the 22 June 1941, the Soviets already fielded 222 T-40 light amphibious tanks, 967 T-34 medium tanks and 508 KV-1 and KV-2 heavy tanks.

Armoured cars

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Light armoured cars

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Heavy armoured cars

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Amphibious tanks

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Light tanks

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Flame & engineer tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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  • SU-12 76.2mm gun truck
  • T-26 A artillery support tank
  • BT-7A artillery support tank
  • 4M quad 7.62mm Maxim anti-aircraft truck
  • 29K (artillery) 76.2mm anti-aircraft truck
  • ZiS-42 25mm anti-aircraft truck

Sweden

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Tankettes

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Armoured cars

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Armoured cars

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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United States

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Armoured cars

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Self Propelled guns

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  • T3 HMC

References

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  1. ^ "China". mailer.fsu.edu. March 12, 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2023-07-28.

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