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| General Characteristics (Ausf B) | |
| Length: | 4.4 m |
| Width: | 2.0 m |
| Height: | 1.7 m |
| Weight: | 6 tons |
| Speed: | 40 km/h (road) - (off-road) |
| Range: | 140 km |
| Primary armament: | Two 7.92 mm machine guns |
| Secondary armament: | - |
| Power plant: | 100hp, six-cylinder Maybach engine |
| Crew: | 2 (Commander and Driver) |
The Panzer I is a German tank used in the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
The Panzer I was first of Germany's post World War I tanks. In 1932, specifications for light (5-ton) tank were made and issued to Rheinmetall, Krupp, Henschel, MAN and Daimler Benz. In 1933, Krupp's design was selected. It was based on the British Carden-Lloyd Mk. IV , two of which had been secretly purchased from the Soviet Union. Since the Treaty of Versailles forbade Germany to produce any tanks, these versions were referred to as "Landwirtschaftlicher Schlepper" (agricultural tractors). The design was modified in late 1933 to combine the Krupp chassis with the Daimler Benz turret. In 1934, the resulting tank was designated the Panzer I Ausf A, and in July, production began.
The Panzer I first saw combat in the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, as part of the German forces sent to assist General Franco and the Nationalists. The Panzer I turned out to be underpowered, under-gunned, and outclassed by the Soviet T-26 and BT-5 tanks used by the Republican forces. A number of Panzer Is were captured by the Republican forces, and re-gunned with a variety 20mm or 25mm anti-tank guns.
The Panzer I was intended as a training tank, to be replaced by the Panzer III in actual combat. However, because of delays in the production of Panzer IIIs, the Panzer I was the main tank used in the invasion of Poland and was used extensively in the invasions of France, Denmark, and Norway.
Fifteen Panzer IAs were purchased by Nationalist China, and saw combat in the Chinese Civil War.
After Germany removed the Panzer I from combat they were used extensively for patrolling in the conquered territories and for the training of new panzertruppen.
The Panzer I had 13mm of unsloped or slightly sloped homogenous steel armorRHA stands for Rolled Homogeneous Armour . Through the end of World War 2, the armour for almost all tanks and other armoured vehicles was sheets of steel. Increasing the protection on a vehicle meant adding thicker sheets of steel, increasing the vehicle on all side surfaces, with 8mm of armor on the top of the turret, and 6mm on the top and bottom of the hull. The armor was sufficient to stop rifle bullets and most machine-gun bullets, but could not stop anything heavier, such as anti-tank rifleAn anti-tank rifle is a rifle designed for shooting at tanks. The first anti-tank rifle was designed by Germany in World War I in response to the first tanks. The large-caliber rifles were capable of penetrating early tanks' relatively thin armor and allos and anti-tank guns. Even though the armour was relatively thin, it was face-hardened, which also suggests that was not merely intended as a training tank, since the process of face-hardening the steel plates was quite expensive.
The Panzer I was armed with a pair of 7.92mm machine gunA machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. Overview M2 machine gun surrounded by spent shell casings Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per bullet fired, a machine gun wills in the turret. These guns could be independently elevated, but both turned with the turret. This made the Panzer I a good tank against infantryInfantry (or Infantrymen are soldiers who fight primarily on foot, using personal weapons. They may arrive on scene in various ways, and are deployed either in formations or as skirmishers and guerillas. In the modern period, the term "infantryman" is res and soft vehicles, but completely impotent against anything with armor.
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