Again, the diminutive tankette managed to knock out two or three German tanks without being spotted. But then a Panzer turned its turret to face Orlik’s thinly-armored tank from 300 meters away.

Take, for example, the Tančík vzor 33 (Tankette pattern 1933) — a miniature "tankette," if you will, used by the Czechoslovak military from 1934 until the end of World War II. Advertisement ...