Talk:Tankette

message: I don't know who put the M50 Ontos on the page and called it a tankette, but that is obviously incorrect. While it does have paper-thin armor, its weapons do not fit into the tankette designation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:245:C101:6BCC:5807:AD7D:9DDA:BB34 (talk) 17:52, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: M50 Ontos not a tankette

message: Removed until it has references and is shown to be not copyvio ("built the tankette shown above in his garage" makes me suspicious, there is/was no such image on the article):
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A theory was put forward by the great French tank enthusiast General Estienne, who helped design France's first tank and a proponent of the light tank, of the idea of skirmishers armed with light tanks rushing an enemy position. The idea was that the massive onslaught by a high speed, protected group of soldiers would be unstoppable in action. Col. (Later Major General) J.F.C. Fuller revived the idea after WW1 and a debate began. Major (later Lt. General) Sir Gifford Le. Q. Martel undertook the idea and in 1925 built the tankette shown above in his garage. The engine came from a Maxwell and the axel came from a Ford truck. The tracks came from the Roadless Traction Company. The body was made from wood. After a demonstration to the War Office, authorization was obtained for Morris Commercial Motors to build 4 test models. The first was delivered in 1926. In 1927 eight more machines were ordered and were to be used as scout machines of a new experimental force being formed. The idea was dropped shortly after that period as it was found that a single man had difficulty operating these machines and firing a weapon at the same time. One machine was tested with a single rear tire for steering.
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Ingolfson (talk) 07:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  An addition by anonymous 

message: I imagine this could get contentious, since there is no solid definition of a tankette. Nevertheless I have deleted the French supply tractors Lorraine and UE from the list of examples. Neither was designed to be used as a tankette. Indeed the French Army rejected the idea of mounting weapons on the UE for precisely the reason that it might lead to misuse as a tankette. Since both vehicles were usually unarmed and had other tactical roles they probably shouldn't be listed....even though it is possible both might have been used as tanks at times. 
As for the AMR 33 de-listed by someone else, well, I am not sure. It fits the definition in the article. It has less armament than, say, an Italian L3/33. 
I look forward to others' thoughts. 
DMorpheus (talk) 17:09, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds okay as an argument to me... Ingolfson (talk) 10:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Sounds like a good definition to me - a tankette is intended for combat use. A tractor is intended for transport of goods and pulling sleighs, trailors and other vehicles. While a tractor might drive up to the front-lines, it is not intended for fighting. Tankettes are. Another note about terminology: The official classification of the Wiesel in the German army is "armoured weapons carrier" - a non-sense newspeak term which could equally be applied to a Leopard 2 MBT, or an uparmored supply truck! So we should not get focussed on what certain people or institutions, armies or manufacturers  might call it, but look at the characteristics of the machine and then decide whether it fits the definition of a tankette, or not.   Alexey Topol (talk) 23:46, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of tankettes

message: Removed "In Games" section. That a single game has a tankette as a unit is not particularly noteworthy. Instead, consider linking to tankette from the game article page itself (which currently does not exist, underscoring the lack of significance of the removed reference).
Contingency (talk) 03:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed edit by 24.184.252.163 (In games section)