VCL LIGHT AMPHIBIOUS TANK A4E12 - ROYAL NETHERLANDS ARMY - EAST INDIES - 1941

Description

The British armor company Vickers-Carden-Loyd (VCL) developed an experimental amphibious tank in the early 1930s which was armed with a Vickers .303 machine gun in a turret and was manned by a crew of two. While the British Army did not acquire the tank, a number of them were sold abroad including China, Thailand, the Dutch East Indies and the USSR. Soviet engineers reverse-engineered their tanks to create the amphibious T-37A. A number of the A4E12 tanks were acquired by the Royal East Indies Army to provide support in the ongoing guerrilla war and were used unsuccessfully to defend against the Japanese invasion in 1941. (Scale : 1/35e)