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tankette
A tankette is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle〔''(The Revolution After Next: Making Vertical Envelopment by Operationally Significant Mobile Protected Forces a Reality in the First Decade of the 21st Century )'', Tedesco, Vincent J. III; Major, School of Advanced Military Studies , United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, United States, 2000, Page 15〕 resembling a small tank roughly the size of a car, mainly intended for light infantry support and scouting.〔(''Iron Arm'' (book excerpt via Google Books) ), Sweet, John Joseph Timothy; Stackpole Books, 2007, Page 84)〕〔(T-27 Tankette ) (from the 'battlefield.ru' website, with further references cited. Accessed 2008-02-21.)〕 Colloquially it may also simply mean a small tank.〔(''War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War'' (book excerpt via Google Books) ), Dickson, Paul; Brassey's, 2004, Page 221)〕
Tankettes were designed and built by several states between the 1920s and 1940s, and saw some combat (with limited success) in World War II. However, the vulnerability of their light armor eventually caused the concept to be abandoned.
==Characteristics==
Tankettes were made both in one- and two-man models. Some were so low that the occupant had to lie prone.〔 Some models were not equipped with turrets (and together with the tracked mobility, this is often seen as defining the concept), or just a very simple one that was traversed by hand or leg. They were significantly smaller than light tanks and did not have a tank gun, instead their main weapon tended to be one or two machine guns or, rarely, a 20mm gun or grenade launcher.
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