20230624 (51)_Vickers_Light_Tank_Mark_IV
Vickers Light Tank Mark IV (based on a Carden-Loyd design after Vickers bought the company) showing its paces in the Kuwait Arena at the Tank Museum, Bovington Camp, Dorset, during Tankfest 2023. Vickers produced a series of light tanks based on suspension similar to that of the legendary Bren Carrier used by the British Army throughout WWII. By that time however they were completely obsolete (the Mk VI was in service in considerable numbers in 1939) and the only action they saw was Imperial policing of the Indian North-west Frontier in what is now Pakistan. Doctrine anticipated the Light Tank engaging only others of its kind and avoiding heavier armour, unrealistic in the face of massed heavy armour working under Blitzkrieg doctrine.
20230624 (51)_Vickers_Light_Tank_Mark_IV
Vickers Light Tank Mark IV (based on a Carden-Loyd design after Vickers bought the company) showing its paces in the Kuwait Arena at the Tank Museum, Bovington Camp, Dorset, during Tankfest 2023. Vickers produced a series of light tanks based on suspension similar to that of the legendary Bren Carrier used by the British Army throughout WWII. By that time however they were completely obsolete (the Mk VI was in service in considerable numbers in 1939) and the only action they saw was Imperial policing of the Indian North-west Frontier in what is now Pakistan. Doctrine anticipated the Light Tank engaging only others of its kind and avoiding heavier armour, unrealistic in the face of massed heavy armour working under Blitzkrieg doctrine.