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The Nahuel DL-43 tank was a medium tank developed in Argentina during World War II. It was the Argentine equivalent of the M4 Sherman and the M3 Grant American medium tanks.




Design


The designer was Lt. Colonel Alfredo Baisi. The word Nahuel means "jaguar" in the aboriginal language Mapudungun. It was armed with a 75 mm gun (taken from the Krupp Model 1909 Field Gun used by the Argentine Army) in a rotating armored turret.
Its design is similar to that of the United States Army M4 Medium and the early versions of the M3 Grant but with sloped armor. Contrary to popular belief it was not a copy of the M4 Sherman, but the design of the M4 influenced it.




Production


Only 12 tanks and one wooden mock-up were produced by the Arsenal Esteban de Luca in Buenos Aires and supplied to the Argentine Army, because of the availability of cheap surplus Sherman tanks, several of which were provided by Belgium and the United Kingdom in the late 1940s.




Operators


Argentine Army




See also


Argentina during World War II
Ñandú (vehicle)
TAM (tank)
Patagón




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References


Notes

Bibliography
(in Spanish) Sigal Fogliani, Ricardo Jorge, Nahuel DL 43 - Tanques Argentinos (desde sus orígenes hasta 1950), Editorial Dunken, Buenos Aires, 2004, ISBN 987-02-0788-X.
(in Spanish) Sigal Fogliani, Ricardo Jorge, Blindados Argentinos, de Uruguay y Paraguay, Ayer y Hoy Ediciones, Buenos Aires, 1997. ISBN 987-95832-7-2.
Ness, Leland Jane's World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles - The complete guide, HarperCollins Publishers, London 2002, ISBN 0-00-711228-9




Further reading


Ogorkiewicz, Richard (2015). Tanks: 100 years of evolution. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472806703.
Rauch, Georg V. (June 2013). "El tanque argentino Nahuel DL-43" (in Spanish). ReDiU, Revista Digital Universitaria del Colegio Militar de la Nación. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Heredia, Juan Carlos (2012). "Siguiendo las huellas del Nahuel Para reconstruirlo en 1:35" (in Spanish). Fundación Soldados. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
de Mazarrasa, Javier (1996). La Familia Acorazada TAM [The TAM armoured family] (in Spanish). Valladolid, ES: Quirón. ISBN 84-87314-27-9.




External links



Photo gallery TANKS! Armoured warfare prior to 1946
Photo gallery Mimerswell
1909 Krupp 75mm L/30 gun (field Version)
(in Spanish) Siguiendo las huellas del Nahuel Para reconstruirlo en 1:35, by Juan Carlos Heredia (2012) - Fundacion Soldados website (accessed 2016-10-16)

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