Specification Crew : 4 Engine : Praga EPA Combat weight : 9.40 tons Max speed : road . 42 km/h Range : 250 km Length : 4.60 m Width : 2.12 m Height : 2.40 m Main gun : One 37mm KwK38(t) L/48.7 : Two 7.92mm MG37(t) Armour : 8mm to 25mm

The Pz Kpfw 38(t) was in fact the Czech LT Vz 38 which was produced for the Wehrmacht after the annexation of the Czechoslovakian provinces of the Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939.Ordered as a prototype from CKD (Praga) in 1937 the Vz 38 was outright winner of competitive tests held in 1938.In July an order was placed for 150 tanks to be manufactured immediately.The Munich Agreement forced the slow-down of this order and no production vehicles were delivered before March 1939.After the German occupation an order was placed for the 150 incomplete tanks to be completed for the Wehrmacht as the Pz Kpfw 38(t) Ausf A. Externally similar to the model ordered by the Czech Army in 1938 the Ausf A can be readily identified by the battle aerial in the form of a pipe along the left side of the tank.The Germans increased the crew by a gun loader , thus relieving the commander of this task.The amount of 37mm ammunition was reduced by 3 bins containing 18 rounds to make space for the additional crewman.Fifty-nine Pz Kpfw 38(t) Ausf A served in the 67th Panzerabteilung of the 3rd Light Division in Poland , and 15 served in Norway in 1940.Thereafter this tank served in most theatres of was except Africa.