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Early Access: Foreign Tanks in the Spanish Civil War (Patreon)

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Foreign Tanks in the Spanish Civil War

In this video Gareth Lynn Montes from Tank Encyclopedia and I talk about Foreign Tanks in the Spanish Civil War. Particularly how they were used, how they arrived, how they were liked, etc. Tank Encyclopaedia: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ Cover Images: A model 1933 (in reality produced in 1936) T-26 of the Nationalist forces, Spain, battle of Guadalajara, March 1937, illustrated by David Bocquelet from Tank Encyclopaedia https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_t26.php Panzerkampfwagen I in Spain, Nationalist forces, Legion Condor, “El Negrillo”, June 1938, illustrated by David Bocquelet from Tank Encyclopaedia https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/germany/panzer_i.php »» GET OUR BOOKS «« » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon, see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « see pinned comment #SpanishCivilWar,#ForeignTanks,#Tanks

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John aitken

Fascinating. I read all I can on this conflict..so this was great piece Bernard.

Volker Hartmann

What I know about the BT-5: It was designed for the use as an exploitation-vehicle, i.e. exploitation after a won battle. The idea was that in order to best exploit a successful battle one would need to out-pace the enemy to hunt him down and for that one needed a large number of fast moving tanks that would be accompanied by motorized infantry. This of course presupposed the doctrine of deep battle operations that the Red Army had developed. If the Nationalist Spanish Army was reluctant to adopt Wehrmacht doctrine on tank use then deep battle must have been for them outside the horizon of thought. And to be fair: even if they had found the idea sexy, they simply lacked the technical and logistical means to conduct such an operation. Their logistics relied to a very large extent on mules and the few trucks they had were most likely used for logistical support and it would have been a far to high risk to use them in a large scale attack operation. While on the Republican side they simply lacked the level of organization and coordination to conduct a deep operation, and of course the opportunities. - So yeah: It was a solid vehicle that got used in a way it was never designed for (like delivering mail in a city with a Lamborghini). During Operation Barbarossa it suffered a similar fate. But, if I am not ilinformed, it was used successfully by the Red Army in the offensive against Mandschuko. That was what it had been designed for: Hunting down an enemy who lacks proper anti-tank measures over large distances on plain ground, so that the enemy never gets the chance to regroup. Whether it there was just part of an overall successful operation or it even was a relevant factor in overall success due to its speed I don't know.