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The Intrepid RAS-12/AR-12 is a semi auto shotgun derived from the AR-10 platform and manufactured by Intrepid Tactical Solutions. [1] The weapon is chambered in a proprietary rimless 12 gauge round. The original RAS-12 working prototypes and intellectual property were developed from July 2011 to July 2012 in Hayden, Idaho by Erik DeJong and ...
The 705th and 706th belonging to the 7th and 10th Panzer Divisions respectively, were destroyed at this time. [ citation needed ] Of the remaining companies, only the 701st participated in the opening stages of the subsequent Case Blue in 1942, although it, and its parent 9th Panzer Division , were transferred to Army Group Center by the end of ...
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Special Panzer Variants: Development . Production . Operations, Walter J. Spielberger and Hilary L. Doyle, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen PA, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7643-2622-6; Panzer Tracts No. 6-3 Schwere-Panzerkampfwagen Maus and E 100 development and production from 1942 to 1945, Thomas L. Jentz and Hilary L. Doyle, Panzer Pacts, 2008 ISBN 0 ...
During the war, the mass of a panzer increased from the 5.4 tonnes (6.0 tons) of a pre-war Panzer I light tank, to 68.5 tonnes (75.5 tons) of the Tiger II. In the meantime, the Soviets continued to produce the T-34 by the tens of thousands, and U.S. industry nearly matched them in the number of M4 Sherman tanks built and deployed in Western Europe.
A, the Sd.Kfz. 265 saw considerable action during the early years of the war, serving in Panzer units through 1942 and with other formations until late in the war. [ 1 ] The kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen , is commonly referred to as a command tank, but as it is without a turret or offensive armament and merely is built on the chassis of the Panzer ...
The 10.5 cm K (gp. Sfl.) was built on a heavily modified Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. E chassis with the turret removed and an open-topped superstructure added to house the main gun. The forward glacis plate was of 50-millimetre (2.0 in) face-hardened armour at 15° from the vertical while the sides were 20 mm (0.8 in) thick.
The idea of a Bergepanther came about in 1943 because of problems with the recovery of heavy and medium tanks. The development was carried out by MAN . The half-track vehicles used up to then for recovery (e.g. Sd.Kfz. 9 ) were rarely able to successfully recover a Panther or a Tiger ; towing with another Tiger or Panther was strictly forbidden ...