22 October 2015

Tanktober #22

An unusual specimen!

13 comments:

  1. A nicely weathered T-33/85 beutepanzer

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  2. T34/85 Beutepanzer. A captured tank and modified by the Germans for their use.

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    1. M3 Scout Car also known as a White Scout Car behind.

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  3. As per the others a capture T-34 Buetepanzer

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  4. Beutepanzer T34/85. However it appears that it has been retrofitted with a german KwK36 88mm gun, the same as on the Tiger. This would be because Germany didn't produce any 85mm shells.

    In the background is a US White scout car.

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    1. Yeah I noticed the muzzle break, do not think it's an 88mm though. Barrel is not thick enough.

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  5. Looks like it might have a Hohenstaufen division marking on the left front fender.

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  6. Interesting. Beutepanzer T34/85, but I don't think I've seen one with a muzzle break before. Was the gun added post war? As to where, I would have said Eastern Europe, but I know there were a few captured T34s used in the west, and you haven't been to Russia... Saumur? A museum in the Ardennes?

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  7. T-34/85, captured and refitted by the Germans.

    I've seen a lot of KV-1s and T-34/76s but not a /85 done up like this.

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  8. Panzerkampfwagen T-34 747(r) with a German 75mm KwK 40 L/48. No idea where it is.

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  9. T 34/85 at the Oorlogsmuseum in Arnhem. The muzzle break imho is a dummy though as it doesn't look like either German or Russian.

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