Talk:Tank phone

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1) The actual origin of the "tank phone" is hard to determine - it could arguably be the field telephone and wire-spool included on the Mk. I tank but I haven't found any reliable source saying whether or not this qualifies as a "tank phone" - possibly it doesn't as there wasn't a hand-set mounted on the outside of the tank AFAIK. The Churchill IV tank had one mounted as standard but no reliable source says that it was the first one to have that, and it entered production in 1943 (not sure which month). Improvised ones were installed on US Sherman tanks as early as the battle of Tarawa (i.e., November 1943), and the Australians also did this around that time.

2) I've done UK, Commonwealth, and US forces here but very obviously other countries use this as well. However, I cannot find any sources discussing them - I know that the Israelis use them on their Merkava tanks but that's it.

3) This is called by a multitude of different names, none of which appears to predominate, I've chosen the shortest. FOARP (talk) 09:49, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]