Very strange Mine-clearing Panzer... anyone know more?

[MAX_theHitMan]

A while back I saw a picture of a hobby-model named "Alkett-Raümgerät Minenraumer" ( Assault Vehicle & Mine Crusher)
and of a "Minenraumpanzer III " ( Mine clearing tank), does anyone of you fine folk outthere have a real photograph of any of these vehicles I have mentioned?
I have searched the web (google/altavista/yahoo) but came up empty, perhaps because this was a prototype vehicle still in trials stage.
Any more information on it would be most valuable.
Many thanks in advance

i have posted a picture of a model , so you can get an ideia as to what "strange" vehicle i am trying to get information on.

[cbo]

A while back I saw a picture of a hobby-model named "Alkett-Raümgerät Minenraumer" ( Assault Vehicle & Mine Crusher)
and of a "Minenraumpanzer III " ( Mine clearing tank), does anyone of you fine folk outthere have a real photograph of any of these vehicles I have mentioned?
I have searched the web (google/altavista/yahoo) but came up empty, perhaps because this was a prototype vehicle still in trials stage.
Any more information on it would be most valuable.
Many thanks in advance

i have posted a picture of a model , so you can get an ideia as to what "strange" vehicle i am trying to get information on.

One is actually preserved in the Russian armour museum at Kubinka, near Moscow:



Claus B

[MAX_theHitMan]

UAAAHAHAHAHA Just look at the size of that sucker

Thanks for that fine polaroid cbo 8)

Did this thing ever saw any action? or was it just a prototype, "one-off" invention for clearing Mines?

By the looks of it, it was pretty big. It seems to have a Panzer I turret with double machine gun ports. So I´m guessing it was pretty much well over 2 and a half meters high, maybe 3.

Anyone have anymore info?

[Michael Kenny]

More pics

[MAX_theHitMan]

Many Thanks Michael Kenny.
Those old polaroids are quite excellente.*two thumbs up

Just look at the tracks on that thing. LOL
It must have weighted well over 80 tons.
I feel sorry for any gophers/rats caught underneath that panzer

[brano]

Minenraumpanzer III

[Rommel8]

ahahaha...how effective were these? if at all

[bryson109]

My guess is that it is a RAUMER-S , but only a guess. Made by krupp and 130 tons.

[Otis]

Here is a picture of Minenraumpanzer III with the roller on it from:
http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/su/t- ... e_t-34.htm



Does anyone know the width between the two hitch points?

[snidervolley]

this vehicle still exists at the russian tank museum outside of moscow

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ger ... nrm-01.jpg