Officially the Tank, Light, Mk VIA, the Vickers Light Tanks were a series of light tanks built by the Vickers-Armstrong Company for the British and Commonwealth Forces during the interwar wars. Like the Renault, M1917, and Panzerkampfwagen I, the Vickers were all 2 man crewed vehicles with a crew of a Commander/Gunner/Loader in the turret, a feature becoming much more standard on tanks by this time, and a Driver in the front left of the hull. The Vehicle was armed with a heavy hitting armament of TWO Machineguns, a Vickers .50 Caliber Machinegun on the right and a Vickers .303 Machinegun on the left. The Vickers was overall a successful vehicle not just for Vickers-Armstrong but for the Commonwealth as a whole, with a successful production run of 4 years and a total of over 1,600 vehicles being produced. Realizing that the vehicle was quickly falling behind in not being able to be upgraded the British and Commonwealth Forces began retiring the vehicle from front line service with their forces by about 1942, but that would not stop the Vickers. Various examples were captured by all forces of the Axis and saw use as captured vehicles by Italy, Japan, and Germany. Germany would go on to designate their vehicles as the Leichter Panzerkampfwagen Mk. IV 734(e) or Light Armored Fighting Vehicle Mark IV 734 (English) and were used as antipartisan and policing vehicles in occupied areas such as France and the Low Countries. Japan would use the vehicles which a number of examples were captured in Burma, against the Chinese who lacked from a inventory of tanks in any large number to be effective, no less modern capable ones. The last of the Vickers would see use in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War where they were used in small numbers by Israel which they had gained from the British forces in the area when they left.