List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles

This is a list of armoured fighting vehicles developed during the interwar years between the end of the First World War (1918) and the start of the Second World War (1939). There is some overlap with tanks that actually served in the early part of the Second World War.

See also history of the tank, list of armoured fighting vehicles.

Czechoslovakia

Tanks

Armoured cars and tankettes

China

China purchased several hundred armoured combat vehicles during the 1930s. The exact model and numbers are difficult to obtain, please see this article for more info.

Some of China's armoured fighting vehicles in 1930s:

France

Germany

Italy

Poland

Japan

Soviet Union

At the end of the Russian Civil War, Soviet Russia had a stock of imported Mark V (called Rikardo, after the Ricardo engine), Whippet (Tyeilor, after the Tylor engine), and Renault FT (Reno) tanks, and an assortment armoured trains.

By the time of the German invasion on June 22, 1941, the Soviets had already fielded 222 T-40 light amphibious tanks, 967 T-34 medium tanks and 508 KV-1 and KV-2 heavy tanks.

Light armoured cars

Heavy armoured cars

Tankettes

Tanks

Small amphibious tanks

Light tanks

Flame-throwing and engineer tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Self-propelled guns

Most of these were manufactured in very small numbers


Sweden


United Kingdom

Armoured cars

Tankettes

Tanks

·vickers M1933

Self-propelled guns

United States

References

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