SdKfz.251/5

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Post by Christoph Awender » 30 Jun 2002, 14:58

Hello!

According to the KTB Pz.Art.Rgt.103 received 17 SdKfz.251/5 in Mai 1943.
What I did not know until know is that they called it "ZIEGE".
I was not able to find a foto or drawing of the vehicle. Anyone can point me to the right direction?

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Post by Mait » 30 Jun 2002, 16:41

Here You go...

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Post by Christoph Awender » 30 Jun 2002, 16:47

Hello!

I always try to make my own researches before I post here! :-)

But I didn´t find a (good) foto of the vehicle. The foto you sent is a Pionier-vehicle and I doubt that a Pz.Art.Rgt. used this version for observation duty. I know that it had the 30Watt (FuG8?) transmitter which was very good according to the regiment and the FuG4.

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Post by Andy H » 30 Jun 2002, 20:44

The 251/5 was the Pioneer version with the main differences being the internal layout.

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Post by Christoph Awender » 30 Jun 2002, 22:44

What did Pz.Art.Rgt.103 do with 17 of them. The author writes that it was a kind of command vehicle with the two radios I mentioned before. Wasn´t there a "sub-version"?

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Post by Christian Ankerstjerne » 30 Jun 2002, 23:07

Couldn't it be a typo - the /6 version, not the /5, is a command vehicle with several radios and an Enigma machine.

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typo..

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Post by Christoph Awender » 01 Jul 2002, 08:23

Hi!

Yes, I think it is a typo. Probably they mean 250/5 which was a command/observation vehicle.

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Post by Andy H » 02 Jul 2002, 20:42

The 250/5.I was issued to artillery batteries. Radio equipment consusted of Fu 8 & Fu 4 sets and was difficult to distinguish between them and 250/3. A later 250/5.II was the same as the 5.I except that it had a Fu 12 set installed as well

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Post by Antonio Pena » 05 Jul 2002, 00:59

I agree with the tipographic error in the book, but I think that the author could write Sd-251/15 (Mittlerer Lichtauswertepanzerwagen) an artillery observation vehicle with flash spotting equipment.

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Sd Kfz 251/5

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Post by Alter Mann » 13 Jan 2003, 02:23

According to Chamberlain, Doyle and Jentz, the photo was of an Sd Kfz 251/7 towing a 2.8cm sPzB41 anti-tank gun. The Sd Kfz 251/7 was a 'mittlerer Pionierpanzerwagen. "When issued to the HQ companies, these vehicles were fitted with the FuG5." Also known as the Gerat 907.

The Sd Kfz 251/5 was a "mittlerer Schutzenpanzerwagen (Pi)" with FuG8 + FuG5 and was the radio command vehicle of the Panzerpionier Gruppe until discontinued in 1943.

There are no photos of a 251/5 in my sources.

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