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Wheeled British WWII Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer Tracked Finnish WWII Komsomolets (captured from USSR) Half-tracked German Sd.Kfz. 7 towing an 8.8cm Flak. An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres.
Preserved Crusader gun tractor. The Crusader gun tractor came out of a need for a vehicle to tow the heavy 76.2 mm QF 17 pounder anti-tank gun. It was a Crusader tank hull with a simple boxy superstructure replacing that of the gun tank. The 14 mm thick structure protected the driver and the gun crew of six. The tractor also carried ammunition ...
Pages in category "Artillery tractors" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. ... Crusader II, Gun Tractor Mk I; F. Field Artillery Tractor ...
The first in 1945 used the Crusader gun tractor (developed from the Crusader tank to tow 17-pounder anti-tank guns). It was a turretless design with no casemate. The second, FV3805, in the 1950s used a Centurion tank carriage, the gun being in a barbette mounting in a fully enclosed casemate. The chassis was reversed, with the enclosed fighting ...
Typical early war use included towing such medium pieces as the 60-pounder, 6-inch howitzer, 4.5-inch gun and 5.5-inch howitzer, until the AEC Matador medium gun tractor was issued in sufficient numbers. Heavy artillery pieces towed included the 6-inch gun, 8-inch howitzer, 155 mm Long Tom and the 7.2-inch howitzer.
Crusader II, Gun Tractor Mk I; Guy Quad; Morris C8 Quad FAT (10,000) Scammell Pioneer R100 [3] (768) Tanks. Light tanks ... Self-Propelled Guns and Semi-Track. Cassell.
By 1944 the batteries of infantry divisional A/T regiments such as 63rd A/T Rgt consisted of one troop of 6-pounders and two troops of 17-pounders but corps A/T regiments were fully equipped with 17-pounders, two batteries towed by Crusader tanks converted into gun tractors, and two self-propelled (SP) batteries with M10 tank destroyers ...
Gun Developed Manufactured Role Sexton: M3 Lee: QF 25-pdr (87.6 mm) Mk II: 1942: 2150: self-propelled gun M7 Priest: M3 Lee: M101 howitzer (105mm) 1942: 4443: self-propelled gun Crusader III, AA Mk.I: Crusader: Bofors 40 mm gun: 1944? self-propelled AA gun Mk.II/III [broken anchor] Crusader: 2×Oerlikon 20mm gun: 1944? self-propelled AA gun ...