![]() ![]() If you spot anything out of place, please let us know! Hello dear reader! This article is in need of some care and attention and may contain errors or inaccuracies. It was consequently dropped after June 1940 and phased out, joining various driver training schools. But this model, popular for propaganda purposes, was nevertheless too heavy for its engine and off-road capabilities were rather limited. The radio version (Fu) was called Sd.Kfz.232 by the Waffenamt (28 built). Later on, a Magirus engine, slightly more powerful (70 bhp), was mounted instead. It was basically a reinforced Büssing-Nag truck chassis, complete with the truck engine. A new vehicle was developed instead and mass-produced from 1932 to 1935 as the Sd.Kfz.231, a six wheeled vehicle with a completely armored sloped bodywork, armed with a full revolving turret housing a 20 mm (0.79 in) QF gun coupled with a Mauser MG 13 or, later, MG 34. The first prototype was based on an eight-wheeled chassis, deemed to be too complicated for production -and too costly. The first model developed as a series, following the interim Reichswehr Kfz.13, was based on a June 1929 specification asking for an armored car especially designed for scouting operations, with a good endurance, range and off-road capabilities. The Schwere Panzerspähwagen (heavy reconnaissance armored car) concept was first developed into several road wheeled vehicles tested at the secret Kazan proving grounds, in the USSR, following an agreement between the two countries. ![]() Heavy Armored Car – 1,235 Built A forerunner: The Sd.Kfz.231 (6-rad) ![]()
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