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Vickers Argentine Model 1938 tank
| Light Tank Vickers "Argentine Model" 1938 | |
|---|---|
| File:Vickers Modelo Argentino 1938 - 9 July 1938 Parade.gif Argentine "Vickers" Tank Model 1938, in the preliminaries to the military parade on 9th July 1938 | |
| Type | Light tank |
| Place of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Service history | |
| Used by |  Argentina |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Vickers-Armstrongs |
| Designed | 1934 |
| Manufacturer | Vickers-Armstrongs |
| No. built | 12 |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 3.8 tonnes |
| Length | 3,62 m |
| Width | 1,89 m |
| Height | 1,88 m |
| Crew | 2 (commander, driver) |
| Armor | 4 mm sides, 9 mm front and turret |
Main armament | 1 Vickers CT machine gun, water cooled, caliber 7,65 mm, rate of fire 550 a 600 rounds/minute, with TBC rounds |
| Engine | Rolls Royce, 6 cylinders, gasoline 50 hp @ TBC rpm |
| Power/weight | TBC hp/tonne |
| Suspension | Horstmann inclined springs |
Operational range | 140 km |
| Maximum speed | 48 km/h |
The Vickers "Argentine Model 1938" tank was a variant of the Vickers Carden-Lloyd Commercial model 1934 light tank developed in United Kingdom during the interwar period for Argentina. It was the first tank used by the Argentine Army, serving between 1938 and 1946.
Design
History
Operators
Survivors
No example is knowm to have been preserved. A scale model from the 1930s exist in the collection of the "Museo de Armas de la Nacion" in Buenos Aires.
See also
- List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles
- Tanks of the interwar period
- Vickers T-15 light tank
- Nahuel DL 43
References
Footnotes and citations
Bibliography
- (in Spanish) Sigal Fogliani, Ricardo Jorge, Blindados Argentinos, de Uruguay y Paraguay, Ayer y Hoy Ediciones, Buenos Aires, 1997. ISBN 987-95832-7-2.
Further reading
- Rauch, Georg V. (June 2013). "El tanque argentino Nahuel DL-43" (in Spanish). ReDiU, Revista Digital Universitaria del Colegio Militar de la Nación. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
External links
- Britain's Light Tanks, Model 1933, Model 1934, Model 1936, Model 1937 wwiivehicles.com (retrieved 2011-10-07)
- (in Spanish) Fundacion Soldados - Tanque Vickers. Colección Museo de Armas de la Nación - author: Ernesto Navarro (retrieved 2011-10-07)
- Great Britain's Light Tanks - TANKS! website (retrieved 2011-10-09)
- Image of a Vickers Carden-Loyd commercial mod.1934 light tank 1/72 model - wespemodels.ro (retrieved 2011-10-09)
- Images of Vickers Model 1934 (M38 Arg) (retrieved 2012-02-25)
- Vickers Carden Loyd 1934 Argentine model - 1:35 scale scratchbuilt (with pics) (retrieved 2019-03-23)
Category:Tanks of the interwar period by country Category:Tanks of Argentina