Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
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VANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III AVID E. SMITH and MIKE CHAPPELLOSPREY PUBLISHING LONDONPublished in 1980 byOsprey Publishing I.idMember company of the George Philip Group 1214 Long Acre. Ixnidon WC2E ()LP ©Copyright 1980 Osprey Publishing Ltd Reprinted 1985 (twice), 1986, 1987, 1988This book is copyrighted under the Berne Conventi Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III on. All rights reserved. Apart from any lair dealing for the pur pose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the CopyrighOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
t Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tran.srnit.led in any form or by any means, electronic, eVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III be addressed to the Publishers.ISBN o 85045 362 3Filmset in Great Britain Printed in Hong KongPzKpfwm Auxf. A photographed in Poland. 1939. The Ausf. A -D were fitted with a circular hull machine gun mounting. Note yellow turret cross: sec Plate Al and commentary.(Bundesarchiv)DevelopmentOn 16 Marc Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III h 1935 the German government formally repudiated the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, which contained the strict proviso that GermanyOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
was prohibited from owning or obtaining tracked armoured fighting vehicles. Hiller had calculated correctly that British and French reaction to the reVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III the introduction of universal conscription and the initiation of a vast arms production programme.Although herself forbidden to manufacture tanks while the Treaty provisions applied. Germany was far from being totally lacking in tank design experience. In the years following the Great War, she had Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III co-operated with that other contemporary international pariah, Bolshevik Russia, in establishing a secret experimental station on the Karma River, altOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
hough the result of the joint research programme tended to be ofgreater benefit to the Red Army; and Sweden had also provided some practical assistancVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III cess of manufacture under the guise of agricultural tractors when the repudiation took place. These became known as the PzKpfw I and PzKpfw II, their intended roles being respectively training and reconnaissance. As these vehicles left the production lines they were sent immediately to the newly for Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III med Panzer divisions as temporary expedients pending the appearance of purpose-built main battle tanks, the plan being that each battalion should consOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
ist of one Heavy Company, equipped with tanks carrying a large-calibre gun for close support, and three Medium Companies, whose tanks would carry an aVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III Regiment, 2. Panzer-Division en route for Greece during the 1941 Balkan campaign. Other photographs of this unit confirm the distinctive style of markings, with a small white vehicle number on the hull side well forward. tactical symbols on the turret side, and a horseshoe displayed on the track-gua Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III rd. Sec Plate As and commentary. (Bundesarchiv)IV, and that of the Medium Companies as the PzKpfw III.The starting point for the PzKpfw III design, asOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
in every main battle tank design, was the gun. Senior tank officers requested a 50mm gun, a sensible provision at a time when the British were beginnVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III erestuaffenaml, responsible for procurement, demurred, pointing out with the backing of the Artillery Inspectorate that the infantry was already in possession of the 37mm anti-tank gun, which was in quantity production, and the obvious desirability of standardization of armour-piercing ammunition an Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III d weapons. An intelligent compromise was reached by which the tank officers accepted the 37mm, while the turret ring was to be constructed wide enoughOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
to accommodate the 50mm gun if necessary.4Having settled this question, the next step was to design the hull within the then 24-ton German bridge-loaVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III imiting the width of their tanks, and thus the turret ring, and so ultimately rhe size of the weapon that could be mounted.) A standard layout was adopted with the engine mounted at the rear. Inside the turret the commander sat centrally beneath his cupola, with the gunner on the left of the gun bre Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III ech and the loader on the right. In the forward compartment the driver was located on the left and the radio opcrator/hull gunner on the right, with tOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
he transmission between them. The final drive ran to the sprockets across the front of the forward compartment. This basic arrangement remained unalteVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III ure, the essential requirements being specified as a 15-ton vehicle capable of 25mph. The true purpose of the vehicle was cloaked under the security title of Zugfuhrer-wagen or zw (‘platoon commander’s vehicle’);but military bureaucracy being as self-perpetuating as any other kind, successive Marks Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III carried in addition to their Ausiuhrung letter a progressive zw number, long alter security had ceased to be an overriding consideration.The AusfiihruOsprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III
ng A appeared in 1936. The running gear consisted of live medium-sized roadwheels, front drive sprocket, spoked idler and two return rollers. The vehiVANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDA Osprey vanguard 016 panzerkampfwagen III ear.VANGUARD 16THEBANZERK AM PFWAGEN IIIXVANGUARD SERIESE DI TO R : M A R TIN vv IN D R o wTHE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN 111Text by BRYAN PERRETTColour plates byDAGọi ngay
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