And like the Renault, the Germans planned to manufacture hundreds of LK IIs.
The biggest change in the LK II was the addition of a 37-millimeter cannon in the rotating, rear turret.Ĭonceptually, the LK prototypes were similar in kind to the French Renault FT, arguably the most successful tank of World War I. There were few outward differences between the two tanks. A rearward, four-cylinder, 60-horsepower engine allowed speeds of 10 miles per hour. This upgraded version weighed nearly nine tons due to its additional armor, around two tons more than its predecessor.
The Germans only built two of them, and they never saw combat.īut combat wasn’t the point, as the design served as a prototype for the follow-up Leichter Kampfwagen II - or LK II.
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