__________9TP light tank*
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Number in Service: 0*
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It was a proposed improvement of the 7TP light tank,*
with much improved armour (up to 40 mm in front).*
The name 9TP is in fact modern designation, and the*
project was known just as a "strengthened 7TP".*
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Most probably no prototypes were built before the*
outbreak of the war, only one ordinary 7TP tank was*
tested with a new engine and ballast.*
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Probably a series of fifty 7TP ordered in June 1939,*
to be delivered in 1940, was to have a strengthened*
armour.*
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_____________[description by PIBWL]*