Škoda T-16 - project
This is a post-war development of the structure Škoda T-15. The last 5th prototype of this reconnaissance tank ordered during the Second World War by the German arms office, stood at the end of the war without a tower and armament in the parent factory in Pilsen. The company made an effort to modify and modernize this machine. The body was modified, the box shape of which was modified by mounting an inclined frontal armor plate. The machine did not have the original tower for T-15 and so it received a temporary tower in the form of a tower from LT vz. 35. Thus modified the original prototype Škoda T-15 received a new designation T-15A, later T-15S.
According to the project, the front of this tower was to be modified so that new equipment could be mounted, which was to consist of a 47 mm cannon Skoda A24 or a 57 mm cannon Skoda A25[/i ], which was in a developmental stage. The machine was to receive a new drive unit. It was a diesel engine Tatra T-103. The machine modified in this way was to bear the designation Škoda T-16, but the prototype was never built. The modified prototype T-15/A/S ended up in scrap metal in the 1950s.
Pavel Pilař - Reconnaissance tanks Škoda T-15 and Praga TNH n. A., HPM No. 3/2000
This is a post-war development of the structure Škoda T-15. The last 5th prototype of this reconnaissance tank ordered during the Second World War by the German arms office, stood at the end of the war without a tower and armament in the parent factory in Pilsen. The company made an effort to modify and modernize this machine. The body was modified, the box shape of which was modified by mounting an inclined frontal armor plate. The machine did not have the original tower for T-15 and so it received a temporary tower in the form of a tower from LT vz. 35. Thus modified the original prototype Škoda T-15 received a new designation T-15A, later T-15S.
According to the project, the front of this tower was to be modified so that new equipment could be mounted, which was to consist of a 47 mm cannon Skoda A24 or a 57 mm cannon Skoda A25[/i ], which was in a developmental stage. The machine was to receive a new drive unit. It was a diesel engine Tatra T-103. The machine modified in this way was to bear the designation Škoda T-16, but the prototype was never built. The modified prototype T-15/A/S ended up in scrap metal in the 1950s.