Goebbels claimed that Poles attacked tanks with sabers and foul language, the West and communist Russia parroted how obsolete and weak the milion strong Polish army was so for all our non-Polish and Polish members, let the pictures do the talking, Polish army equipment first, pictures from Polish perspective of 1939 later.
Polish armor.
Tankettes were the most numerous element of Polish armor, cheap to produce but inadequate due to their relatively weak armor, none the less heavily armed versions proved effective when Seargant Orlik destroyed 3 German tanks (2 pz 35T and 1 Pz I) using his 20mm armed tankette.
Approximately 500 tankettes took part in the September campaign, due to inadequate armor they suffered heavy losses yet the re-armed tank destroyer versions had considerable success.
TKS, at nearly 300, armed with a machinegun they constituted the major variant among Polish tankettes.
Testing of the tankette chassis prior to the purchase by the Poles sometime in the 30s.
German soldiers inspect captured tankettes.
37mm armed medium tank destoyer tankettes, an unknown number between one and two dozens were rearmed with a 37mm main gun before the outbreak of the war.
Self propelled artillery version, a dozen of these were built before the war, despite satisfactory performance the limits of this variant meant it never entered mass pruduction, the existing models took part in defence of Warsaw.
20mm armed light tank destroyer variant, between 20 and 30~ of these took part in the September campaign.
Light artillery tractors.
This weird creature was an attempt to give the tankette a turret, 2 prototypes were made, at least one was used in combat.
Next tanks.
Polish armor.
Tankettes were the most numerous element of Polish armor, cheap to produce but inadequate due to their relatively weak armor, none the less heavily armed versions proved effective when Seargant Orlik destroyed 3 German tanks (2 pz 35T and 1 Pz I) using his 20mm armed tankette.
Approximately 500 tankettes took part in the September campaign, due to inadequate armor they suffered heavy losses yet the re-armed tank destroyer versions had considerable success.
TKS, at nearly 300, armed with a machinegun they constituted the major variant among Polish tankettes.
Testing of the tankette chassis prior to the purchase by the Poles sometime in the 30s.
German soldiers inspect captured tankettes.
37mm armed medium tank destoyer tankettes, an unknown number between one and two dozens were rearmed with a 37mm main gun before the outbreak of the war.
Self propelled artillery version, a dozen of these were built before the war, despite satisfactory performance the limits of this variant meant it never entered mass pruduction, the existing models took part in defence of Warsaw.
20mm armed light tank destroyer variant, between 20 and 30~ of these took part in the September campaign.
Light artillery tractors.
This weird creature was an attempt to give the tankette a turret, 2 prototypes were made, at least one was used in combat.
Next tanks.