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The Tančík vz. 33 (literal translation ''Tankette model 33'') was a Czechoslovak-designed tankette used mainly by Slovakia during World War II. Seventy-four were built. The Germans seized forty when they occupied Bohemia-Moravia in March 1939; there is no record of their use. The Slovak Republic inherited thirty at the same time when it declared independence from Czechoslovakia. In Slovak service it only saw combat during the Slovak National Uprising. == Description == The ''Tančík vz. 33'' was assembled from a framework of steel "angle iron" beams, to which armor plates were riveted. The driver sat on the right side using a observation port protected by of bulletproof glass and an armored shutter which had a slit. The gunner sat on the left and had a similar vision port half the size of the driver's. His ''ZB vz. 26'' machine gun was mounted in a ball mount directly to his front. There were similar vision ports on the sides and the rear. The driver's machine gun was fixed and he fired it using a Bowden cable; 2,600 rounds were stored for the machine guns.〔Kliment and Francev, p. 46〕 The front armor was thick, the sides had a thickness of , the top was thick and the bottom plates were in thickness. This was deemed enough to deflect armor-piercing bullets fired from distances greater than from the front and from the sides. Both were supposed to withstand ordinary bullets from over .〔 The , water-cooled, , inline 4-cylinder Praga engine sat directly in the fighting compartment. It had a top speed on the road of . One fuel tank was located to the left of the engine. The transmission had four forward gears and one reverse gear. It, the reduction, differential, driving shafts and brakes were taken from the Praga ''AN'' truck.〔Kliment and Francev, pp. 46-7〕 The suspension was a modified version of that used in the Carden-Loyd tankettes. It consisted of two small road wheels fastened together on a frame, two frames paired and sprung by leaf springs that made a wheel carrier, one wheel carrier per side. The track was guided by wooden, metal-lined frames. It had a ground pressure of only 0.5 kg/cm2. It could cross a ditch wide, climb an obstacle high and ford a stream deep.〔Kliment and Francev, p. 47〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tančík vz. 33」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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