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Wheel-and-Track Vehicles

Discussion in 'Armor and Armored Fighting Vehicles' started by Spartanroller, Sep 23, 2010.

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Why were there not more Wheel-and-Track vehicles in service in WW2?

  1. It was just ignored by prejudiced designers/selectors

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  2. They were too expensive or complicated

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  3. The technology was too young to make a good vehicle

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  1. Spartanroller

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    Some more saurer pics (sorry I love this vehicle);

    One (probably the soft-skinned version) that was armoured by a bloke in a shed and used in 1953 to escape to the West from Czechoslovakia. Apparently they chose it because it was fairly quiet on wheels, but they had the tracks to get away across country if need be - it worked anyway.

    One on wheels off-road - shows that it wasn't just a road=wheels, mud=tracks thing

    One showing the funky driver's smoking window - don't see that in many German armoured wagons

    Another of the soft skinned version

    And one looking a bit sorry for itself
     

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    Heres one of a Christie driving onto its tracks - apparently this was much less of a hassle to do than you might think.
    With the later Russian models they started to use tracks with track pins that were not secured in place, merely knocked back in by a plate on the hull if they started working their way out - this method continued in the T34 even though the wheel-and-track steering and roadwheel drive had been eliminated. Reports I have seen said you could get a BT-2 off its tracks in about 5 minutes, although getting back on took a little longer, it wasn't much.
     

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    More to add to the list - The US T4E1 medium tank, on both wheels and tracks;
     

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    Another example of the Pneumatic tyre type, The Crosley Duck;
     

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