Victor Equo

The Victor Equo medium tank. Notable for its true all terrain capacity the VE formed the core of the first dedicated ZMDF auto mobile cavalry divisions. 

VE type one production series and command radio variant, 18 tons at 42mm to 65mm RHA armour, a 95 BHP Marsden forced aircooled engine, armed with the Hopeworthy R-2 42mm and co axial and hull mounted Sargo Mk.III  7.5mm machine guns. 

VE type two had a fully integrated radio, was powered by the radical 190 BHP water cooled MS 4 City Air System Vantex engine (an engine that would still be in production for thirty six years post conflict in the civilian sector). VE2 while maintaining the original general layout featured a new main hull and a Hopeworthy turret mounting a 52mm gun. All of this increased the mass to 25 tons and the suspension and drive train were altered to suit. VE2 had 54 to 85mm RHA values.  A cupola mounted 12mm semi automatic "clicker" mutli role rifle and a Sargo Mk. IV 7.5mm co axial machine gun were also fitted while the hull mounted gun was deleted to increase the forward armour. The type two was later refitted with an additional frontal 35mm steel angled "chickenplate" designed for deflection of shot on its bow and its turret was up armored with a 20mm thick application of a quick setting ferrous fiber filled cement and angular forward deflection plates while the 12mm clicker was nearly universally retired in 1940 and replaced with a conventional hopeworthy .50 GPMG. While these upgrades did increase survival rates and while the VE2 was eventually upgraded to carry the hopeworthy 58mm and even prototypes with the hopeworthy S.43 65mm high velocity anti tank gun the system simply reached its limits against the heavier tanks it faced and never received the gyro stabilization that later vehicles would. The majority were eventually either converted to a variety of SPG variants, transports or teletanks. 
 

The VE SPG from the beginning equipped with track guards the SPG was later also fitted with additional 40mm armor plate panels on its flanks.
The VE SPG variant was originally deployed with either a 75mm howitzer that was in some cases retrofitted at the muzzle to fire a rocket assisted 145mm petard mortar round as a sort of rifle grenade writ large or the hopeworthy S.39 65mm high velocity anti tank gun.  Many VE SPGs were fitted with in bore flamethrowers.  The VE SPG was for all other purposes a VE type two though tended to lack the integral radio. SPG upgrades were fitted with radio,  with the hopeworthy  S.41 81mm high velocity anti tank gun or the hopeworthy S.42 drencher clip fed 125mm low velocity gun. The 125mm drencher was particularly a feared weapon in the conflict with the dull thump of its fearsome short ranged gun being a particularly notable report that was as useful clearing bunkers as it was in suppressing infantry.  

The VE refit program was the final end of most VEs that had not been converted to the 65mm SPG variant, gun tractors or engineering vehicles by 1941.  The armored all terrain transport refit removed the turret, barbette and chicken plate, and replaced the compartmental wall between the compartment and the engine with a far thinner bulkhead. All of this resulted in cramped conditions for 8 including the driver.  The transport was still in use in some enclave protection forces until the late 1950s being equipped with everything from 125mm mortars , MAT-3 80mm recoiless anti tank rifles or quad anti air .50 cal mounts or simply given a steel bullet proof "roof" to allow it to act as an early APC (if one highly vulnerable to plunging fire).  

The refit VE Teletank most commonly carried nearly 6 tons of torpex explosives and had numerous variants rebuilt from recovered or retired VE twos. The VE-T was operated from 1938 to 42 with considerable effect in mine clearance, demolitions, bunker busting and inflicting considerable moral impact on troops facing remotely operated flamethrower armed variants. The VE Teletanks were also often used in ambush easily mocked up to look like a "wrecked" or burned out VEs or other period armor, commonly with there treads disconnected, relying only on road wheels for the final few meter dash towards the target.  Few if any contemporary vehicles could with stand the 12,000 pound blast.  

Even with the requirement to eventually switch to cable guidance the three entirely separate "clock synched" band hopping wireless control sets eventually proving no match for the growth of peer polties with EW capabilities the teletanks proved effective until there replacement with purpose built platforms.