Landsverk L-62 Anti II

Landsverk L-62 Anti II
	L-62 in Tuusula
General properties
crew	5
length	5.32 m
width	2.30 m
height	2.54 m
Dimensions	10.7 t
	Armor and armament
Armor	7-14 mm armor steel
Main armament	1 × 40 mm L / 50 Bofors flak
agility
drive	1 × petrol engine Scania-Vabis 1664 cc ; 106 kW (144 PS)
Top speed	40 km / h
Power / weight

The Landsverk L-62 was an anti-aircraft tank from the 1940s.

history

The Landsverk L-62 Anti II , also Landsverk Anti-II or Luftvärnskanonvagn L-62 Anti II , was a Swedish tank development from 1940 to 1942. It was developed from the Landsverk L-60 (see also 38M Toldi ). The hull was lengthened and the 40 mm Bofors air defense cannon 40 ItK / 38 was installed as armament in an open top turret. Finland bought six of these tanks in 1942, which were assigned to the tank brigade in May of that year . The Finns used the tanks until 1966.

The tank was exported to Hungary , where it was further developed into the 40M Nimrod . On the basis of the acquired license rights, 135 Nimrod tanks were built at MÁVAG from 1940 .

Landsverk 62 ANTI II in Helsinki

Calls

During the fighting in the summer of 1944, the Finns shot down eleven Soviet planes with these six tanks , thus preventing attacks on the tank brigade.

literature

Panssarimuseo. Parola, 1999.

^ Philip Jowett, Philip S. Jowett, Brent Snodgrass: Finland at War 1939–1945. 2006, ISBN 978-1-84176-969-1 .
^ Gyula Mezey, Herbert Strunz: Leadership of emergency services. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-61025-1 , p. 479.

Web links

Commons : Landsverk L-62 Anti II - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Philip Jowett, Philip S. Jowett, Brent Snodgrass: Finland at War 1939–1945. 2006, ISBN 978-1-84176-969-1 .

[2] Gyula Mezey, Herbert Strunz: Leadership of emergency services. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-61025-1 , p. 479.