Initial Durchbruchwagen D.W. The only 3 known photos. And the whole drawing.
(The 4th return roller was added later on after tests.)
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Pretty cool vehicle wasn’t this is heavy pz4 thing
More like the beginning of the Tiger I line.
Could be a good 1.7 heavy assuming it doesn’t get a bunch of mid-war HEAT rounds, which is exactly the type of thing Gajin would do.
All early vehicles with the 75mm gets HEAT, so it would likely happen with this one as well.
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Not build (most likely), but i do wonder, if there is any more to the topic of As 410 engine into Pz IV. I wonder, it would have massivly increased power of Pz III, IV and StuG series. And the engine was already finished in 1938.
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So does the turret have traverse or what? I’d heard somewhere that it didn’t but idk
No idea.
Aside from this new photo, I learn that three vehicles were constructed, and operated by the
“BP/GBT” (bataillon porté du groupement blindé du Tonkin, or Motorized Battalion of the Tonkin Armored Group) during the Battle of Hanoi in 1946 and 1947.
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Oh, and if you weren’t aware of the cannon type here, it’s a French Mle 1897, already found in game on the St-Chamond (although ballistics may differ if using American rounds as on the M3 GMC).