Author: Joris Peier

Panzer 39

The Panzer 39 was a Czech designed light tank bought by Switzerland. 24 were operated by the Swiss military from 1939 to the late 1940s.

These paper project only light tanks of the Swiss Army have been found at the Swiss National Archives, dating from 1950.

The Swiss army embarked in the 1950s in the colossal endeavour of building its own tank for the cold war and neutrality, facing the soviet threat

The Panzer 74 was meant to be an all-out improvement over the preceding Panzer 68.