#1: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLANDPosted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:57 am ---- FT-17 from Polish Army Museum in Warsaw
Got an engine (for this moment not an original one) and special gummy tracks and is now in running condition www.tvn24.pl/polska-i-...69814.html
#2: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLANDPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:11 am ---- FT-17 in front of Polish Army Museum in Warsaw
First public presentation (after first step on renovation) during the Polish Army Day on 15 August 2013.
The plan is to bring the the FT-17 to running condition.
#4: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: VonForhud, Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:13 pm ---- Im going to Warsaw in three weeks time, I can try and take some snapshots of the tank.
#5: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLANDPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:50 am ---- Start of works on Renault FT from Polish Army Museum, Warsaw (Poland)
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Pracownia Konserwacji Sprzętu Ciężkiego
Muzeum Polskiej Techniki Wojskowe
Fort IX Czerniakowski, Warsaw
#6: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: Massimo_Foti, Location: Lugano, SwitzerlandPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:21 pm ---- Next step would be to make it looks like this one:
#8: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: JimWeb, Location: The back of beyondPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:27 pm ---- There was a lot of discussion about these on the old AFV News forums. The conclusion was that they were FT17s sold to the US Army who gave them to the white russians in siberia c1920 who lost them to the communists who eventually gave them to the afghans.
There was a whole list of book references beyond my ability to remember.
#9: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, FrancePosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:21 am ---- here is the question on a French forum about the Afghan FT transferred in Poland. The question is : could we identify the tank as being ex-Polish? It's in French but it could be easily translated.
#10: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: sil3nt, Location: Poznan, PolandPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:42 pm ---- FT-17 is currently in Poznan, in our museum ...
#12: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: sil3nt, Location: Poznan, PolandPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:14 pm ---- www.mfa.gov.pl/en/news...earch=true
#13: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: Massimo_Foti, Location: Lugano, SwitzerlandPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:39 am ---- Jope they will start recovering some L3 tankette too...
Massimo
#14: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, FrancePosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:27 am ---- I'd bet that this is the same one than this one. Same damages on the outer border of the tracks, the gun is pointing in the same direction and they probably removed the piece of pipe that used to be a fake barrel :
#15: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLANDPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:47 am ----