Tankette
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A tankette was a small tank, with a crew of 2 (there were prototypes with one-man crew). It usually had no turret (and often this is seen as defining for the concept), or if it did, it was traversed by hand. It was armed with 1 or 2 machineguns, or rarely with 20 mm gun. The "classic" design was British Carden-Loyd Mk.VI Tankette - many others were modelled after it. Tankettes were produced between about 1930 and 1935. The world's best-known tankettes were:
- British: Carden-Loyd Mk.VI Tankette
- Italian: CV-33 and CV-35
- Japanese: Type 94 TK (it had a rotating turret)
- Polish: TK-3 and TKS
- Soviet: T-27