Unknown tank, please help to ID

[zbv500]

Hi all,

posted this in the tanks forum but thought it would be ok to ask here as well.

What type of tank could this be ? At first I thought Bison but it looks a bit different, also the numbers look russian ? A member said it could be a Christies chassis ?

Any ideas ?

Thank you, Jens

[byterock]

Field job of some form.

Can't find it under German, Russian and even Japaneses tanks


My inclination is a Finnish convert of 'Vickers Mark E' or a 'T26' but I can find nothing like it in 12 books

[zbv500]

Many thanks for having a look, strange that it cannot be found.

Remains a mystery

Jens

[mark67]

Soviet SU 26, not many of them were built.

[Mil-Archive]

The exact same photograph features in this youtube compilation video of SU 26.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnrpyOG_V18

[Totenhead]

Field job of some form.

Can't find it under German, Russian and even Japaneses tanks


My inclination is a Finnish convert of 'Vickers Mark E' or a 'T26' but I can find nothing like it in 12 books

It was based on the T-26 ?

[mark67]

It was based on the T-26 ?

Yes.

[Totenhead]

Yes.

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-26_variants

SU-T-26 (SU-26, later SU-76P) — Self-propelled gun of an open-top design armed with a 37 mm gun or a 76.2 mm regimental gun mod. 1927. The Factory of Hoisting-and-Conveying Machinery named after S.M. Kirov (in Leningrad) built 14 vehicles in 1941: probably 2 with a 37 mm gun and 12 with a 76 mm gun.

The tank pictured is having a 76mm gun, and is facing from rear.
Another one, also facing from rear.

See You

Vince

[zbv500]

Hi guys, great to have it ID´d. Rare beast. I can only think that the youtube pic is of another soldiers estate who had a duplicate of my example.

Thanks alot, Jens