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Tanks of New Zealand. The New Zealand Army use of tanks from after the First World War, through the interwar period, the Second World War, the Cold War and to the present day has been limited, but there is some history. The New Zealand armed forces developed in the early twentieth century but served alongside the British and other Empire and ...
Shermans of New Zealand's 20 Armoured Regiment on the road to Trieste, May 1945. The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 led to an expansion of New Zealand's armoured force and the New Zealand Armoured Corps was formed in January 1942. From 1942 small numbers of American light and medium tanks were supplied to and used by the New Zealand ...
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5 hp/t. Operational. range. 160 km (99 mi) Maximum speed. 24 km/h (15 mph) The Bob Semple tank (sometimes referred to as Big Bob) was a light tank designed by New Zealand Minister of Works Bob Semple during World War II. Originating out of the need to build military hardware from available materials, the tank was built from corrugated iron on a ...
- 25.4 t (25.0 long tons)
- New Zealand
- Ministry of Works, Temuka
- Light Tank
New Zealand Army. The New Zealand Army ( Māori: Ngāti Tūmatauenga, "Tribe of the God of War " [2]) is the principal land warfare force of New Zealand, a component of the New Zealand Defence Force alongside the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Royal New Zealand Air Force . Formed in 1845, as the New Zealand Military Forces, the Army traces its ...
- 4,519 (Regular), 2,065 (Reserve)
- New Zealand Defence Force
Nov 5, 2013 · The New Zealand government’s answer to a Japanese invasion — the Bob Semple tank. “Prototypes of this curious tank were slapped together in the early 1940s amid growing panic in New Zealand over the threat of a Japanese invasion.” THE GERMANS named some of the their most powerful tanks after ferocious beasts like Tigers and Panthers ...
The first unit operating with tanks was the 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade (part of the 2nd NZ Division), formed from the 4th New Zealand Infantry Brigade in October 1942, taking a large part in the battle of El Alamein. It was equipped initially with Sherman and Stuart tanks supported by M5 half tracks and Lynx scout cars for reconnaissance.
