Axis Armored Vehicles Quiz

[von thoma]

SdKfz 247 Ausf. A

[arminfreitag]

Hi von thoma,
that's right. So it's your turn for the next question.

Regards
Armin

[von thoma]

Thanks

Let's go with this

[arminfreitag]

Hi
could it be an Italian L3/35 tankette with a 20 mm Oerlikon gun?
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Armin

[von thoma]

CV-35 with a 20 mm Solothurn S-18/100 cannon.

Correct for arminfreitag

[arminfreitag]

Hi everybody
here a something new.
What type of tank is used here as a bridge layer?

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Armin

[bam]

That's a good one.
The only thing I recognise is the cupola, which looks like a 35t, but I wasn't aware there was a bridging tank version of that tank. The clean, curved rear turret plate with rivets look right for 35t .

So, is it a Czech built Pz. 35t, with a jerry-built bridge on top ?

Or maybe more of a ramp, like the British Churchill Ark conversion? The ends of the 'bridge' are not the same: the far end of the bridge has an iron girder (that the right hand soldier has a foot on) joining those 2 troughs. The nearer 2 troughs don't have that connecting bar, suggesting to me that the bridge is more likely a ramp, as the far end would be "in the air" unsupported, while the near end would be anchored amd supported by the ground. Maybe..

Do you know when the image is from?

[arminfreitag]

Hi Bam
you are absolutely right. Pzkpfw 35 (t) it is. I'm sorry I do not know anything about it.
I found these pictures on ebay some years ago. You can see some more details of the ramp.
I guess they made these trials early in the war together with the different bridge carriers (layers)
on Pz I and Pz II chassis.
So it's your turn now.
Regards and happy new year
Armin

[bam]

Lovely photos, I’ve not seen a German Ark style ramp tank before. Shows that they were thinking of how to solve the same problems of assaulting beach obstacles that the allies later solved with their “funnies” engineering tanks.

First photo above shows an early style 6th panzer div symbol. They were the only pZ.div equipped with pZ.35t in Barbarossa, and lost the lot, 100+, by December, when the final runner, hilariously called Michael the Last broke down. The problem was something to do with 35t tanks having a hydraulic system, in the gears? , and the Russian cold just broke the hydraulics.

[Alanmccoubrey]

Bam, I used to believe that 6PD were the only German Division to use the 35(t), until I was told about the five used by Totenkopf's Recce Bn in France 1940 !

[brano]

Pz.Kpfw.II, which moves to the ramp is also an interesting reconstruction. Pz.Kpfw.II mit Abwurfvorrichtung or Ladungsleger II

[arminfreitag]

Good eyes Brano. Here 2 of these rare vehicles.
Regards
Armin

[bam]

Alan, 35t with Totenkopf, yes I’d forgotten those. They were in the Aufklarung Abt in 1940, to make up for lack of wheeled armoured cars, and so those 35t were the first SS tank unit of the war.
Were they still with SS Totenkopf in Barbarossa? Someone will know...

P.S. I’m digging around for a quiz photo, I haven’t forgotten

[bam]

,
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rightho, which afv is this?
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[arminfreitag]

Hi Bam,
that's a difficult one.
Is it a Land-Wasser-Schlepper?
Regards
Armin