Military Vehicles 1930-1939
The decade laid much of the groundwork for the upcoming World War - actions in the Spanish Civil War serving to perfect German tactics.
There are a total of 56 Military Vehicles from 1930 - 1939 in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1936
The 7TP series was of a Polish light tank design, based on the British Vickers-Armstrong 6-ton light tank (Mark E). With war ...
1936
The AH-IV was an export tankette design of Czech origins that appeared in 1936. Agile and fast, the machine gun-armed combat ...
1938
The AMC-35 (or "Automitrailleuse de Combat Renault modele 1935") served the French and Belgian armies in the early stages of ...
1938
Armored cars played a major role in warfare during World War 1 for their ease of production and machine gun-carrying qualitie...
1935
The R12 was utilized by the German Army throughout the late 1930s and 1940s for communications delivery and reconnaissance du...
1932
Like many of the military powers prior to World War 2, the Red Army adopted a series of light, fast tanks intended to overwhe...
1933
The BT series of Soviet "Fast Tanks" was born out of a John Walter Christie design in the early 1930s featuring an American s...
1934
In the latter portion of the 1920s, the Soviet Army began looking to modernize their fleet of aging tanks. As such, it held a...
1935
The L3 series of tankettes primarily served the Italian Army in the years leading up to World War 2. By this time in history,...
1938
By its given "mark", the Tank, Cruiser, Mk I (A9) was the first in a long series of "cruiser" tanks for the British Army and ...
1934
Despite its use as a general staff car as well as centerpiece in many of Hitler's propaganda-driven military parades, the Dai...
1938
The FCM 36 was one of three primary tank designs adopted by the French Army during the mid-1930s, prior to its formal commitm...
1936
Like other powers of the 1930s sensing future regional unrest across Europe, the French enacted a modernization program of th...
1939
The Hotchkiss H39 superseded the H35 series light tanks in French Army service, being produced in more numbers than her forer...
1938
The first production "tank" (then known as a "landship") was born in the UK during World War 1. In the conflict, the tank pro...
1937
No other tank in the British Army inventory was as important as the Matilda II during the early years of World War 2. The Ger...
1939
The Soviet Army became something of experts in the use of battlefield rockets during World War 2. The BM-13 series (more popu...
1939
In 1938, the Soviet Union developed a prototype heavy tank of 58 tons designated as the T-100. The type was a massive machin...
1935
The "tank" received its baptism of fire in World War 1 as large, cumbersome lozenge-shaped tracked vehicles lumbering about t...
1936
The LT zv 35 was of Czechoslovakian origin and was developed just before open hostilities in Europe during World War 2. After...
1939
This light tank system initially began as a Czechoslovakian creation in the form of the LT vz 38 but - as with the previous L...
1937
At the end of World War 1, the German war machine was dismantled - losing its power to manufacture aircraft, tanks, submarine...
1935
The Panhard Type 178 armored car was a further evolution of the Toe-M-32 system that was initially designed to police the rea...
1934
By the mid-1930s, Germany - under the power of Adolph Hitler - had undertaken broad reaching reforms that included modernizin...
1931
The Renault Char D1 served the French Army for a time leading up to World War 2. Her origins and use lay in a World War 1 men...
1935
Few could have known what the inception of the Panzer I into the German Army inventory during the middle portion of the 1930s...
1936
While development of the of the Pz.Kpf.W. I (Panzer I) light tank (Sd.Kfz. 121) was still ongoing, the Pz.Kpf.W. II (Panzer I...
1939
Development of Hitler's Panzers was key to his early overwhelming victories in the East and West. The Panzer I light tank bec...
1939
The Panzer IV (or "Panzerkampfwagen IV" and abbreviated as "Pz.KpfW. IV") formed the backbone of the German Army from its inc...
1935
Following the end of World War 1, the victors placed the blame of the war squarely on the German Empire. Austria-Hungary and ...
1939
The SdKfz 250 series was just one in the long line of German-produced halftrack systems in World War 2. The 250 system went o...
1939
A 1932 directive set about to provide German infantry with a versatile vehicle able to keep pace with the mobile Panzer tank ...
1936
In 1934, the French Army issued a new requirement for a cavalry tank in an attempt to modernized its inventory amidst growing...
1934
While remaining a neutral power throughout World War 2, Swedish authorities saw fit to modernize and stock their military inv...
1932
The light tank industry was a booming market following the end of World War 1 and throughout the interwar years leading up to...
1938
With certain Swedish Army modifications in place (mainly a standardized 37mm main gun), the Strv L-60 Light Tank became the r...
1931
As was the norm after World War 1 in all industrialized nations around the globe, Soviet warplanners set about to upgrade the...
1933
In the early 1930s, the Soviets took to designing an indigenous tank - specifically the T-28 Medium Tank series - based on l...
1935
Despite its formidable appearance by 1930 standards, the T-35 Heavy Tank ultimately proved an ill-fated endeavor of Soviet ta...
1931
The Empire of Japan went through a period of militarization following the end of World War 1. She consistently bred military-...
1936
The Type 95 "Ha-Go" was a light tank design primarily utilized by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War 2. She wa...
1937
The Type 97 Chi-Ha was a production of the Mitsubishi company and designed to replace the aging Type 89B series for the Imper...
1937
Developed from an early Imperial Japanese Army request for a light tank in 1937, the Type 97 Te-Ke was simply outmatched agai...
1939
The Bren Gun Carrier was truly a universal system at its core. Charged with moving troops through the harshest of conditions,...
1939
In 1939, the United States Army invited some 135 to 165 manufacturing companies to submit design proposals within a 75-day t...
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