BK-XI light tank
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| Type: | Light tank |
| Place of origin: |  Benacian Union
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| Designer: | Mishalan Arsenal
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| Designed: | 1710 AN – 1722 AN |
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| In service: | 1724 AN – |
| Used by: | Benacian Union Defence Force
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| Number built: | 84,070 (1744 AN) |
| Number lost: | 44,900 |
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| Length: | 6.68 m |
| Width: | 3.00 m |
| Weight: | 31 tonnes |
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| Crew: | 3 (commander, gunner, driver) |
| Effective range: | Cross country: 675 km |
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| Engine: | SIG V12, air-cooled, diesel |
| Armour: | 20–70 mm heat treated steel-manganese alloy |
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Production history
A key feature of the BK-XI light tank would be the reuse of the Sårensby Arsenal 40 mm autocannon, recovered from scrapped Horjin IFVs, as the tank's main, indeed initially sole, armament.
Its simplicity, relatively speaking, ensured that it would be the mainstay of Benacian wartime production, however the calamitous course of the Shiro-Benacian War meant that losses of the type also assumed astronomical proportions. Fully half of the total production run of the type would be lost to all causes before the armistice.
Variants
Operators
Benacian Union Defence Force – 39,170 surviving examples in service as of 1744 AN- Southern Apollonia Logistics & Security Group – 36
