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    Tanks on manouevre

    Here is another scanned photograph with some T55s (I believe) and a couple of SPW 52 (BTR 52). The vehicles in the far distant are not easily identifiable and I haven't got a clue of what they might be.



    This is a good demonstration why a military vehicle needs to be all wheel drive... not necessarily because the terrain would demand it, but because the tank in front has made such a mess of it!

    Just have a look at those ruts... I have the impression that the SPW52s are keeping to the side so as not to ground their axles...
    From many photographs I have seen before I get the impression that the sandy soil of Eastern Germany turned into a sea of mud during the wet months. It must have been a great delight to clean up the vehicles after an exercise...
    There is a scene in the TV film Offiziere showing precisely that.
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    Matteo - The person in the chemical suit in the BTR-152 is in the process of signalling...You can just see a yellow flag that he is waving...
    Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did. Quote - Sophie Scholl - White Rose resistance group

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      Originally posted by iannima View Post
      From many photographs I have seen before I get the impression that the sandy soil of Eastern Germany turned into a sea of mud during the wet months. It must have been a great delight to clean up the vehicles after an exercise...
      There is a scene in the TV film Offiziere showing precisely that.
      Hi Matteo, I think this one is quite fitting... Cheers, Torsten.
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        Originally posted by torstenbel View Post
        Hi Matteo, I think this one is quite fitting... Cheers, Torsten.
        Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did. Quote - Sophie Scholl - White Rose resistance group

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          Here is another view of the 152...
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          Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did. Quote - Sophie Scholl - White Rose resistance group

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            Wasn't the SPW 52 copied from the M2/M3 American halftracks?

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              Originally posted by MikeW View Post
              Wasn't the SPW 52 copied from the M2/M3 American halftracks?
              I don't think it was a copy of anything. The Red Army found that they had no real means of armoured transport for infantry in WW II. (Except from some lend-lease hardware). The best and cheapest option was to build an armoured wheeled truck. Considering the fact that they had plenty of halftracks of various sizes to study/copy, it was probably considered the easiest way to armour a truck. As the ZiS, on which the BTR 152 is based, was in itself a copy of the Studebaker and there are only certain variants of effective armour design, it is understandable that the end product looks like a cross between the M2/M3 and a truck.

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              Last edited by Dag; 12-11-2006, 03:48 PM. Reason: the Moscow automotive factory was named ZiS before 1953.

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