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The LRCT-Panthera (acronym stands for Light Recon Tank) is a recon tank that was designed by Polish Industries and was in service with the Polish Army until the mid 90s, where it was retired.

History

The LRCT-Panthera was a project that sought out to modernize the M18 hulls that were in storage at the time, to give them a longer service span and a new role, and so they designed the tank, it passed blueprint stage and was in prototype phase, when the new turret and new major hull chabges were made, it was deemed satisfactory and final changes were made of the inital variant, it was deemed being reliable and rugged, as a recon tank since it is very fast, infact the fastest vehicle the Polish Army had at the time.
The fast mobility of the LRCT-Panthera made its effectiveness even higher considering it can run from enemy fire, however the armor remains unchanged to reduce stressing the transmission and other important components, so it was not meant for rushing enemy positions, instead opting as a fire support vehicle for infantry and reporting positions for air support.
As decades passed on, the LRCT-Panthera slowly turned obsolete as it was outdated and the huge amount of spare parts were turning low, and was expensive to reproduce the same old parts of the M18 Hellcat, and so it was retired in the mid 90s, being replaced with the new MBTs that could perform the same role but was more effective in combat.

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