Well…It’s my first thread in this forum.I’m not a native English speaker so my English maybe not so good…
All right, time to go to my topic.In this thread I want to show you some German WWII military vehicles’modifications I found on the internet.
The German art of mounting everything on anything!
Flakpanzer T-34
I think you guys may have seen this picture somewhere before cuz this modification is no short of photos
A 4.7 cm AT on Universal Carrier.
A 2.5 cm Hotchkiss AT replaced the former Bren machinegun.
2-cm MG-151/20 Fla SL.151 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4/1
Good for eliminating infantries:cool:
PzIV with a 50mm Pak38
15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf mittlere gepanzert Zugkraftwagen S-307/303(f) Nebelwerfer 41
French-based half-track converted to Nebelwerfer 41 (15 cm) launcher.
Panzerjäger 7,5 cm PaK 40 auf Zugkraftwagen Somua S-307(f)
French-based half-track converted to a 7.5cm PaK 40 gun carrier
5 cm KwK38 L/42 auf P 204(f)
French Panhard 178 converted to armored Tank destroyer in 1943.The original tower was removed giving place for a mounted tank cannon KwK 38 L/42.Small numbers of these machines were created used mainly to provide fire support in reconnaissance units armed with classic Panhard 178.
5 cm KwK 38 L/42 auf Matilda(e)
During the fighting in Africa, the Germans captured several British Matilda infantry tanks, different production versions. Other Matildas were captured on the Eastern Front.
One Matilda II was converted to self-propelled gun. The original tower was removed and in its place was mounted 50 mm tank cannon KwK 38 L/42. The same gun version of the PzKpfw.III . Additional armament consisted of 2 mgs. This machine was used in 1942 in the school-Lehrkommando Hochsee unit in Terneuzen in the occupied Netherlands. The tank was named “Oswald”. In late 1942, the tower was removed . His fate is unknown, probably later ended up in scrapyards.
a Bren carrier with a 2 pounder gun.
German anti-tank gun PaK 35/36 37 mm gun mounted on a light tank chassis PzKpfw.I Ausf.A.used for training.
a 37mm Pak35、36 mounted on a Bren carrier
8 cm schwerer Granatwerfer 34 auf Panzerspähwagen AMR(f)
Between technology captured by the Germans after the conquest of France was even greater amount of light reconnaissance tanks AMR. The Germans decided to use these machines for their own use. Smaller numbers of tanks were deprived of the original tower with a 25-millimeter cannon and converted into mortar carriers for the German sGrW 34 caliber 80 mm.
The gun was mounted on the roof of the hull and superstructure surrounded riveted steel plates with thickness of 10 mm. The side walls of the superstructure were halfway up the angled and sloped down and up. Top and rear extension was then open. Infantry mortar barrel protruded above the wall superstructure.
The crew consisted of four men machines. Vehicle weight was 9 tons and Renault engine with an output of 82 hp on the road he was able to give a maximum speed of 55 km / h In the field, then the maximum speed has dropped to about 35 km / h
Conversion of French tanks took place at the turn of the years 1943 and 1944. The exact number of self-propelled mortars built is not known, as well as the history of their engagement.
Grosser Funk und Beobachtungspanzer auf Lorraine-Schlepper 37L(f)
Conversion to the commander of artillery and observation for artillery on the chassis of the original French artillery tractor Lorraine 37L. On the chassis, a new body of armor plates, machine got radio equipment and artillery sight. Baukommando Becke got 30 such machines.
The machines were put in self-propelled artillery units, which were self-propelled guns converted to the same platform ( 10.5 cm leFH18 / 4 auf GW Lorraine Schlepper (f) and 15 cm sFH13 / 1 aus GW Lorraine Schlepper (f) ).