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What’s the name of this halftrack?
RadPanzer :D
I’m sorry about that. I don’t know. I just found the picture and thought to share it here. It might not be an official variant. Every army did things to alter vehicles as they saw need and had opportunity.
Ah that’s okay, I’d just love to make a suggestion for it, would be an amazing BP or Event Vehicle IMO. Would like it to be in tech tree but considering all the copy paste BP vehicles I think it would make a good one
That is a Film Prop not a German Panther tank, look at the road wheels and turret. It’s way too damn large.
PaK auf Halbkette" Sd.Kfz. 10
https://www.reddit.com/r/wwiipics/comments/n0b80w/german_soldiers_on_a_pak_auf_halbkette_sdkfz_10/
Why thank you! I’ll look into it.
Jagdpanzer 38 on display at the Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany
I’m not certain. It just seems that the German museum wouldn’t get this wrong.
Now, a lot of German armor got sold off to other countries after the war. Might the Swiss have taken some of these and used them, before they made their way back to museums?
What flavor of PUMA is this?!!! I want it 😄
They didn’t, the G13s were Post-War Hetzer’s.
"‘G-13’ had been the Škoda factory designation for the Jagdpanzer 38 tank destroyers they had built for Germany during 1944 and 1945. The post-war Swiss Army needed new armoured vehicles and ordered 158 G-13s from Škoda. Built on the same production line, these were largely the same as the wartime vehicles and some early examples actually used left-over wartime components.
One noticeable difference was the fitting of a muzzle break to prolong barrel life. German vehicles did not have a muzzle-break because crews found that it was more likely to give away their position, rather more critical at the time than barrel-life!
The Swiss Army used the type until 1970, by which time 94 of them had been re-engined with Saurer diesel engines instead of the original petrol engines
This example was presented to the Imperial war Museum in 1981 by the Swiss Ministry of Defence.
The muzzle-break has been removed and it has been painted in a wartime German scheme to represent a Jagdpanzer 38.
It is seen on display in the Land Warfare Hall at Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire, UK."
Imperial War Museum is currently offline or not working but this is the sum of what I’ve gathered.