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{{Short description|Small tracked armoured fighting vehicle}} [[File:TKS P1010141 2.jpg|thumb|300px|A [[TKS|TKS tankette]] in the [[Polish Army Museum]]]] [[File:Święto Wojska Polskiego, czołg.jpg|thumb|300px|A TKS tankette with a human for scale in a 2019 parade in Poland]] A '''tankette''' is a [[Continuous track|tracked]] [[armoured fighting vehicle]]<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.tedescos.com/Pages/VJ/monograph2.pdf |title=The Revolution After Next <!--: Making Vertical Envelopment by Operationally Significant Mobile Protected Forces a Reality in the First Decade of the 21st Century] --> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213100806/http://www.tedescos.com/Pages/VJ/monograph2.pdf |archive-date=2012-02-13 |last=Tedesco |first=Vincent J. III |publisher= [[United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies|School of Advanced Military Studies]] |location= [[Fort Leavenworth]] |date=2000 |page= 15}}</ref> that resembles a small [[tank]], roughly the size of a car. It is mainly intended for light infantry support and [[reconnaissance|scouting]].<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z23JjCBkSykC&dq=tankette&pg=PA84 |title=Iron Arm |via= Google Books |last= Sweet |first=John Joseph Timothy |publisher= [[Stackpole Books]] |date= 2007 |page=84|isbn=9780811733519 }}</ref><ref name="T27">[http://www.battlefield.ru/content/view/72/50/lang,en/ T-27 Tankette] (from the 'battlefield.ru' website, with further references cited. Accessed 2008-02-21.)</ref> Colloquially it may also simply mean a small tank.<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-Xv836lmxgC&dq=tankette&pg=PA221 |title=War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War|via=Google Books |last=Dickson |first=Paul |publisher=Brassey's |date=2004 |page= 221|isbn=9781574887105}}</ref> Several countries built tankettes between the 1920s and 1940s, and some saw limited combat in the early phases of [[World War II]]. The vulnerability of their light armour, however, eventually led armies to abandon the concept with some exceptions such as the more modern German [[Wiesel AWC|Wiesel]] (Weasel) series.
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