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View Poll Results: What is the best/your favorite WW2 light tank
M3/M5 - Stuart 7 25.93%
M2 - Locust 0 0%
M24 - Chaffee 10 37.04%
Mark VII - Tetrarch 1 3.70%
Mark VI - Vickers 0 0%
7TP 0 0%
T-26 1 3.70%
T-60 1 3.70%
T-70 1 3.70%
Type 98 - Ke-Ni 0 0%
Type 95 - Ha-Go 0 0%
Pzkw I 0 0%
Pzkw II 7 25.93%
Pzkw 35/38(t) 4 14.81%
Carro Armato L6/40 0 0%
Toldi I-III 0 0%
Hotchkiss H35/39 0 0%
Renault R35 1 3.70%
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Old 06-24-2008, 09:42 AM   #1
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Best/favorite WW2 Light tank

Well - light tanks are rarely discussed - people usually just drool over a shiny Tiger (myself included ). But the light were essential to armoured warfare - not only for recon - but also to fill in the gaps in the "poorer" armies.

Anyway - my choice is the Pzkw II - a mediocre machine that managed to hold its own against vastly superior tanks in France, Africa and Russia. Its followed closely by the Stuart (infantry-mower) and Pzkw 38(t) (the reasons Juha mentions).

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Old 06-25-2008, 08:55 AM   #2
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I voted for
M24

and PzKw 38(t) a light tank which was able to substitute medium PzKw III in many German PzDs up to 1942. ie light tank with firepower of a medium tank in 1939-40 with a good mobility and reasonable protection.

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Old 06-25-2008, 09:01 AM   #3
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I vote T-70. Because no T-80.
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Old 06-26-2008, 06:41 AM   #4
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For me it's the Pzkw II
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Old 06-26-2008, 06:57 AM   #5
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had a look see,and went for the m24.i think he looks good.yours,starling.
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Old 06-26-2008, 03:26 PM   #6
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Panzer 38(t) for me. The best light tank at the beginning of the war and capable up until 1942.

M24 is probably the best performance wise but it came too late and was kind of anachronistic anyways.
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Old 06-26-2008, 04:44 PM   #7
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Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer, no doubt about it.
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Old 06-26-2008, 04:54 PM   #8
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I just love the look of the Chaffe. Also it was a fast little bugger and did ok in the various battlefields.

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The thing about the M24 Chaffee is that it weighes more than any other light tank and is close to the Panzer IV in weight actually, and the Panzer IV is both far better armed & armoured, and so is the Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer which infact is 3 tons lighter than the M24 Chaffee.
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JgPz 38(t) wasn't a light tank as its designation shows. A different kind of animal. A compact and effective A/T vehicle, I agree but the poll is on light tanks.
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Old 06-26-2008, 07:39 PM   #11
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Eerr, it's lighter than the Chaffee by some 3 tons Juha...
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Eerr, it's lighter than the Chaffee by some 3 tons Juha...
Yea - but its not a light tank - its not even a "tank"... Its a selfpropelled antitankgun...
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Sorry Daniel but it is a tank, anything that is armoured, rides on tracks and carries a gun is a tank. There's a reason it's called a Jagdpanzer

As defined a tank is an armoured fighting vechicle on tracks, nothing more.
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Sorry Daniel but it is a tank, anything that is tracked and with armour & a gun is a tank. There's a reason it's called a Jagdpanzer

As defined a tank is an armoured fighting vechicle on tracks, nothing more.
true - whence the brackets I put on tank
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Well then I don't see how it doesn't qualify if the Chaffee does ?

The Hetzer is lighter than the Chaffee you know, by some 3 tons.
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