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- Iran
- USA
- Arab tree
- Other
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In 1933, the American companies La France and Marmon-Herrington, who had experience in the development and production of armored vehicles, created a 9.46 ton heavy armored car, designated TK-6, with a crew of 3-5 members by order of Persia.
It was a two-axle full-drive (4x4) combat vehicle with a rear-mounted engine and cannon-machine gun armament. Its body was riveted from rolled steel sheets with a thickness of 6.35 – 9.53 mm and had a rather complex multi-faceted shape, although the armor sheets, with the exception of the top three in the front of the car, were riveted to the frame without rational angles of inclination.
In accordance with the overall layout of the car, the transmission compartment was located in the front of the body. The middle part of the building was occupied by the control department. combined with a combat compartment. Its front wall consisted of three vertical armor plates, of which two side plates were installed at a slight angle to the middle one. In the center of the control room was the driver’s workplace, to the right of it was a machine gunner who served a 7.62-mm machine gun mounted in a ball mount in the right part of the front wall.
To protect the barrel of the machine gun from being hit by bullets and fragments of shells and mines, it was enclosed in a massive armored casing.
The driver’s and machine gunner’s view was provided by three small windows in the armor plates of the front wall of the control room, equipped with armor covers that were lowered in a combat situation.
The volume of the fighting compartment was increased due to rectangular sponsons with square niches, in which spare wheels were mounted on special brackets. They descended below the bottom of the armored car and rotated freely, supporting the body and thereby preventing the car from landing on the bottom when overcoming various rough terrain. For the entrance and exit of the crew from the armored car, both sponsons had doors.
On the roof of the fighting compartment of early-release armored vehicles, a cylindrical turret of circular rotation was installed, armed with an unspecified 37-mm cannon, though likely the American M1916 cannon, a license-produced Sa-18 L21 and a windcooled 7.62-mm machine Browning M1919A4 paired with it, which, like the machine gun in the case, were enclosed in a large armored casing.
On the roof of the tower was a commander’s turret with a periscope observation point.
In the rear part of the hull was the engine compartment, which housed a 178,97 kW or 240 hp carburator engine air-cooled “American La France”, which allowed the armored vehicle to develop a maximum speed of 84,49 km / h when driving forward, in reverse it could go max 38 km/h.
In the full-drive (4x4) chassis with independent suspension, wheels with large-section pneumatic tires of the “Giant” type were used. The drive on both axles was carried out using Gall chains. From above, the wheels were covered by high-raised wide flat wings. The vehicle could be controlled from two control stations — the front and rear, located in the rear of the fighting compartment, and from one post it was possible to control all four wheels.
Specs
Combat weight 9.46 t
Crew, persons: 3-5?
Overall dimensions, mm: length-4700 or 4585, width-1829 or , height-2565 or 2560 or 2451, wheelbase-3600, ground clearance-200 or 311mm
Fording Depth 946mm
Armour 6,35-9,53mm
Armament: 37 mm 1916 cannon ??? + two 7.62 mm Browning M1917 or M1919A4 machine guns;
Engine: American La France V12 carburetor, air-cooled, power 178,97 kW (240hp)
Specific power, kW / t: 16.97;
Maximum speed, km / h: forward: 84.49 km/h ( 52.49 mph) reverse: 38 km/h (23.7mph)