page_title: Vickers 6-Ton
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Vickers 6-Ton / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: Standard Vickers Mark E Type B in Chinese Nationalist service.
context_page_description: The Vickers 6-Ton Tank or Vickers Mark E was a British light tank designed as a private project at Vickers. It was not purchased by the British Army, but was picked up by many foreign armed forces. It was licensed by the Soviets as the T-26. It was also the direct predecessor of the Polish 7TP tank.
context_section_description:  Bolivia – used one twin-turret tank Type A and two single-turret tanks Type B. The Bolivian Vickers tanks were the first to see combat service, also the first tanks to see combat in the Americas—in 1933 they were used in the Chaco War against Paraguay. All of them were destroyed or captured by Paraguayan forces. See Tank warfare in the Chaco War.
   Kingdom of Bulgaria – bought 8 single-turret Mk.E Type B tanks, used by the 3rd armoured company.
   Republic of China – used 20 single-turret tanks Vickers Mk.E Type B. They were used in combat against the Japanese in Shanghai in 1937.
   Finland – used 33 tanks since 1938 (including an evaluation tank). They were bought unarmed, without optics and radios. Some were armed with a short-barreled 37 mm Puteaux gun and later equipped with a 37 mm Bofors anti-tank gun as their main gun with a coaxial turret MG and a "tank SMG" in bow plate. They were used in the Winter War with the USSR. After this war, the Finns rearmed Mark E tanks with captured Soviet long 45 mm guns and DT MGs as used in the T-26. The Finns designated the rebuilt Vickers tanks logically as: T-26E. They were used in combat from 1941–44 and remained in service as training tanks until 1959.
   Nazi Germany – captured from Poland, some converted to self-propelled guns.
   Kingdom of Greece – 1 type A and 1 type B for tests, acquired in 1931. Along with 2 Carden-Loyd Tankettes formed the first armoured battalion of the Hellenic Army, but were mostly used for training.
   Kingdom of Italy – The Italians, after suffering losses from Republican T-26s during the Battle of Guadalajara, captured some of these tanks which served as a model for their M11/39 and M13/40 light/medium tanks.
   Empire of Japan – The Imperial Japanese Army imported 1 Type A tank to research in 1930. The Imperial Japanese Army evaluated the design and developed the Type 95 Ha-Go.
   Paraguay – One double-turret Vickers Mk.E Type A tank captured from Bolivia, later used as monument, returned to Bolivia in 1994.
   Second Polish Republic – used 38 tanks since 1932: 22 Type B and 16 Type A tanks. Polish tanks had large air intakes behind the crew compartment as a significant feature. Poland also bought a license and developed an own improved model 7TP. Vickers Mk.E (Vickers E) tanks fought in the invasion of Poland.
   Portugal – 2 tanks for tests
   Soviet Union – the first buyer of Vickers Mk.E tanks. In 1931 bought 15 twin-turret tanks Mk.E Type A, and a license. The Soviets next started building and developing own improved tanks T-26 (about 12 000 made).
   Spanish Republic – one ex-Bolivian single-turret Vickers Mk.E Type B tank bought from Paraguay, and a number of Soviet-made T-26.
   Thailand (formerly Siam) – used 30 Vickers Mk.E Type B, which saw combat during the French-Thai War in French Indochina.
   Turkey – used 16 Type A tanks since 1940.
   United Kingdom – used only 4 tanks for training.
caption: Vickers Mark E Type B in Chinese service
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