page_title: Belgian combat vehicles of World War II
section_title: T13 (tank destroyer, models B1, B2 and B3)
hierarchical_section_title: Belgian combat vehicles of World War II / Tanks / T13 (tank destroyer, models B1, B2 and B3)
context_page_description: The Belgian Army had approximately 200 combat vehicles at the time of the German invasion in May 1940. The vehicles were distributed among infantry and cavalry divisions for use as support weapons. The Belgian Army viewed their combat vehicles as defensive weapons. The practice of spreading out combat vehicles in so called "penny packets" left them at a disadvantage against the German invaders, who concentrated their armour into organic units that could act on their own and that outnumbered the opposing vehicles even if units of the same type met.
context_section_description: The T13 series was similar to the T15, with a main armament of a 47 mm anti-tank gun instead of a machine gun and 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) of armour. They were regarded as tank destroyers and except the first model (B1) had rotating turrets.
  Total production for the T13:
  T13 B1, 35 produced as self-propelled guns, with a 47 mm gun at the rear behind a shield, with limited traverse.
  T13 B2, 21 produced. These started their life as unarmed Carden Loyd tankettes which were modified and equipped with a turret with a 47 mm gun in 1936.
  T13 B3, 150 produced, entered service in 1937 with a rotating turret and a revised suspension based on the Vickers Light Dragon Mark IIB.
  The Wehrmacht operated some captured T13s during the first years of the war, as the T13 had a more powerful main gun than the Panzer I and Panzer II, common German tanks in the early war years.
  There is a T13 B2 on display at Brussels Tank Museum.
caption: Two German soldiers looking at a captured T13 B3
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