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The German LKII Light Tank Spec’sĪrmament: x1 57mm Main Gun or x2 7.92mm MGĭimensions: Length 5.1m / Width 1.97m / Height 2.

The vehicles design plans were later passed on to Sweden after the Armistice who built the vehicle in 1929 as the Strv M/21. These near-obsolete tanks fought alongside of modern French tanks, and when France capitulated, 1,704 FT 17 light tanks were captured by the German forces. It was the LKII that was proposed for production, however the planned 580 vehicles were never built due to the 1918 Armistice. The exact name of the British 12-ton tank is unknown. Both vehicles looking similar to the British Whippet Tank with the engine mounted in the front and were based on the Daimler car chassis. The Nationalists bought Italian CV-35 tankettes, German Panzer I Ausf. The LKII was better armoured and up gunned over the LKI. Vollmer who had proposed that a large number of more lighter and less sophisticated tanks could swarm the larger and lesser numbered British MkI (and other similar more modern) Tanks. The German LKII Light Tank (Leichte Kampfwagen) was a prototype built in 1918 by J.