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Tankette Mk.I

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The tankette Mk.I is an indigenous design inspired by international developments and recent trends in tank or rather tankette design. This vehicle differs from other international designs in that it feature its main arnament in a turret rather than mounting it in a hull. This is to so enable the crew to have a larger field of fire than other tankette designs therefore providing a potential edge in armoured combats with other low armoured and low silhouetted vehicles. The vehicle first entered construction like many new vehicles of the SGN's armed forces in 1926 folowing the armies great expansion programmes beginning in 1925. In this image here a crewman conducting maintenance and repairs of a tankette Mk.I is conversing with some intrigued chasseurs. He is explaining the new camo scheme developed for this vehicle known as "camouflage en désordre" (messy camouflage) a camo designed to break up the outline of the vehicle.

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Uploaded on September 11, 2019