British Vickers 6-Ton Light Tank

By Crusader1307

While The Vickers Armament Company was best known for it's small arms productions, it did experiment with various Armor Fighting Vehicle designs. One such, was The Vickers 6-Ton Light Tank. The 6-Ton was never marketed for The British Military (despite several attempts to have them purchase it). The 100-odd Models built were marketed to various Eastern European Armies between 1928 and 1936. It was a popular small Armor Fighting Vehicle. The Soviet Union purchased licensing permission of The 6-Ton, with over 12,000 Models built. Many of these were used in World War II. The final deployment of Vickers Tanks was with The Finnish Army in 1959. A dual tracked system, power was provided by an Armstrong Puma, which produced 98-HP and a land speed of 22-mph. 6-Tins in weight, The Vickers Tank was 16-feet long, 7-feet wide and 7-feet in height. They were crewed by (3). Typically armed with a 57mm Main Gun, most Foreign Armies replaced these with many other Gun Systems.