Disabled Soviet T-26 Tank by Magyar - Hungarian Forces | Gallery

Disabled Soviet T-26 Tank by Magyar

AA guns soon proved to be effective against ground forces as well. Paul Nagy states to have disabled this Soviet light tank with his Bofors AA gun.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ww2incolor.com/gallery/hungarian-forces/42001/disabled-soviet-t-26-tank-by-magyar

The T-26 has little armor, 15mm for the most part, some models had 20mm frontal armor, which is still pretty thin. The 40 mm bofors fired a 2pound projectile at 2,800+ FPS, far more than needed to mince a T-26. (like using a baseball bat to swat a fly.)