Hey guys, need your help on figuring out what kind of tank this is. My brother is over in Germany on a training exercise and found it while out on patrol. Will post more pictures in the thread.
Also general tank thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M42_Duster
More of the tank
>>30423524
Thank you!
>>30423524
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M42_Duster
good satan. 45 second response.
Looks like a self-propelled AA gun. Turret looks similar to an M42 Duster but the hull is a lot smaller.
>>30423579
The hull is smaller because it's missing the mudguards, stowage boxes, and most of the engine compartment.
The hatches at the front are all right for the M42.
>>30423524
Holy speed. Where yo looking over his shoulder?
>>30423579
It's been cut. Has same front hatch, same hull fittings(lifting eyes, assrtd brackets etc.,) same front idler, same casement. Etc. etc. etc.
Wreaked tank thread?
>>30424609
Damn, forgot about the screen flip
>>30424609
>>30424609
I didn't even know Australia had tanks!
>>30425091
What's happening here?
>>30425158
Abstract art or magazine explosion?
>>30425173
>German cross on a t34
Neat
>>30425434
Sometimes the Germans would capture T34s and use them against the Soviets. This happened a lot in Kursk, I think. A tank column with two captured T34s and two Panzers passed a Soviet tank column and they were alright for a second, until a Soviet noticed, turned around, and prepared to engage. The Krauts won the engagement, and this may be one of those tanks.
That, or I'm an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about.
Probably the second one.
>>30428340
Nah you're right, the krauts used the T-34's and their diesel engines to try and conceal their Panzers rolling into Soviet territory at night.
>>30423520
It's more likely that it's an m19 anti aircraft vehicle which had the same turret as the m42, I say this mainly because of the the fact that it's in Germany. The m42 duster did not serve in ww2 whereas the m19 did which leads me to believe that is a ww2 wreck. Both vehicles look very similar since they use the same turret design. The main difference being that the m19 is based off the chassis of an m24 Chaffee whereas the m42 was based off the chassis of the m41 walker bulldog, additionally the turret appears to be rear mounted like the m19 whereas the m42 had a more forward mounted turret, I may be wrong however as the vehicle pictured is far from intact.
These pictures make me kinda sad.
>>30428433
Germans had mark IV's?
any more of these? I want to fill a folder of wallpaper worthy landscapes with rusting tanks
>>30428476
Sometimes Germans like to use captured equipment.
>>30428506
Are there just shittons of destroyed tanks in North Africa from WW2? Or did the Allies/natives clean them up/ salvage them?
>>30428518
I doubt there's much laying around still.
>>30428437
Already been pretty clearly established that it's an M42. Read the first couple of posts.
>>30428518
There's destroyed shit scattered all over Africa. The stuff that was convenient to loot was, but there's a lot still sitting untouched. South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Somalia and other still all have tanks, aircraft, ships and other things laying around rotting.
>>30428463
Each one is a story from a conflict long past. Each one possibly represents the deaths of 2-5 men.
