WAK 11-2007 Czołg szybki 10TP

The 10TP is a prototype Polish high-speed tank with a wheeled-tracked chassis from the interwar period and World War II. The drive was to be provided by a single gasoline engine with 210 horsepower, and the target one - 240 hp. The only prototype of the vehicle was probably created in 1937. The car never entered mass production. The tank was armed with a single 37mm Bofors wz. 37 gun and two 7.92mm wz. 30 machine guns.

In 1936, analytical and testing work began in Poland on the usability in Polish conditions of tanks with Christie's suspension, i.e. tanks that allowed the vehicle to move on both wheels and tracks. The only vehicle of this type was manufactured at Państwowe Zakłady Inżynierii (PZInż), which was probably subjected to field trials in the period 1937-1939. In the course of these tests, it turned out that the 10TP prototype is a highly emergency vehicle, and the biggest problems were the wheel-track traction. For this reason, the project was discontinued in favor of the 14TP car. Probably the only one built of the 10TP was lost in the course of battles with Germany during the September campaign in 1939.