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opel Blitz 3-Tonner The Most Famous Truck of the Wehrmacht and its Variants When asked for the most famous and best-known truck of the German Wehrmacht in World War Two, the name "opel Blitz" automatically comes up. Despite all its fame the background of its purchase, the military versions and the i..

Kubelwagen on all Frontlines The "Leichter Personenkraftwagen K 1" VW Typ 82 Wartime Service & Production BatchesThe Kubelwagen is a legend. While there have been several publications covering this vehicle over the decades, this present book is different as it offers a fresh look and a unique app..

Tankograd In Detail - Dragon Wagon Tank Transporter M25 Reflecting on the development and active wartime service of the M25 makes it clear why the Dragon Wagon finally made it into the hall of fame for trucks and why it became a legend: It was the first mass-produced (1,372 in armoured and unarmoure..

The schweres Geschutztes Berge- und Abschleppfahrzeug (sGeBAF) Bison heavy protected recovery vehicle is used by the Bundeswehr to recover and tow heavy wheeled vehicles that have broken down or had an accident, including equipment such as the LKW 15 t mil gl MULTI A4 FSA truck, variants of the Tran..

Development History - Technology - Modernisation and Upgrades By experts considered as the best main battle tank in the world, the Leopard 2 in 2014 reached a vital stage of modernisation: the 2A7. This publication covers the introduction and the many technical improvements of the new 2A7-variant of..

Leopard 2A4 Part 1 - Development and Active Service The Leopard 2 main battle tank can easily be regarded as a child of the depths of the Cold War. When the Leopard 2 was first fielded in 1979, it already was by far the best MBT in the world as it not only stood out from other tanks in all important..

STALWART High Mobility Load Carrier Among the most iconic British military truck designs of the Cold War is the FV620 Stalwart family of vehicles. It is a series of 6x6, amphibious, high-mobility load carriers designed and manufactured by Alvis that served in the British Army over a period of thirty..

British Nuclear Artillery Corporal, Blue Water, Honest John, Tube Artillery, Lance 1957-93Throughout the Cold War, it was apparent that NATo could not withstand a determined conventional assault by Warsaw Pact forces on the central front in Europe; Soviet superiority in conventional arms and manpo..

British Infantry Brigade Berlin Armoured Vehicles in Berlin Urban Area Camouflage After World War 2 the British Army, as one of the four Allied victors, took control over one of the sectors in Berlin. With the deployment of D Squadron, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, the commanding officer of the unit..

In the U.S. Army Studebaker US6 and US6x4 models saw only very limited use with the Corps of Engineer regiments assigned to the construction of the Alcan (Alaska) Highway. Lend-Lease shipments of the US6 series came to about 90% of the production run, with by far the most being shipped to the Soviet..

U.S. WW II Dodge WC51-WC52 Weapons Carrier Limited Reprint48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings. English text.Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal compagnion for..

U.S. WW II GMC - Air Compressor Trucks, Mess Trucks, Radio Trucks & Rocket Launcher Trucks 48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings.Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ide..

U.S. WW II M4, M5, M6 High Speed Tractors Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal companion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants.Quality Photos and Illustrations; 48 pages with 150-200 illus..

U.S. WWII 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 HMC, 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T82 Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal companion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants of the light U.S. howitz..

M36, M36B1 & M36B2 Tank Destroyers After the M10 and M10A1 Tank Destroyers (TM 6028) this is the companion volume on the Tank Destroyers of the M36 vehicle family in service with the US Army in WW2 and Korea. As in every volume of this series the vehicles are shown in original wartime photos and det..

REFoRGER 1986 - 1993 Vehicles of the U.S. Army during REFoRGER Exercises - Part 3 How would a war between NATo and the Warsaw Pact have ended? The REFoRGER series of exercises trained these scenarios on large scale on German soil. This three-volume publication grants for the first time a broad overv..

MTVR Tactical Truck of the US Marines The Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) range of vehicles is a family of tactical off-road trucks especially designed by the oshkosh Corporation to meet the requirements of the United States Marine Corps. From 2000 onwards, MTVR trucks gradually replaced ..

PT-76 Soviet and Warsaw Pact Amphibious Light Tank During the Second World War the Red Army mastered and rapidly expanded bridging and ferrying operations. In the immediate post-war era it was understood that the Soviet Union needed to rapidly develop a new generation of modern amphibious tanks. Pri..

Finnish Leopards The Finnish Army Leopard 2 A4 MBT, 2R AEV and 2L AVLB In 2002 Finnish requirements resulted in a contract to buy 124 Leopard 2 A4 MBTs from German military reserve stocks. Not all the vehicles were scheduled for use as MBTs. only a batch of one hundred vehicles was assigned to the M..

BIBER The Bruckenlegepanzer 1 Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge in Modern German Army Service The crossing of trenches, obstacles and small water channels always creates problems for combat forces, which eventually led to the development and fielding of special bridge-layer systems. The current Armo..

Boxer A0-A1-A2 The Multirole Armoured Wheeled "Mothership" of the German Infantry Since the introduction of the multirole armoured wheeled vehicle GTK Boxer (nicknamed the "mothership of the infantry") no other vehicle family in the Bundeswehr has seen a more intensive modernisation effort. With the..

Unimog U1300L The Legendary 2-ton Unimog Truck in German Army Service - Part 2 - Cargo Truck Since 1978, the 2-ton Unimog U1300L has shown its worth in service with the German Bundeswehr as the successor to the legendary 1.5-ton Unimog S. Today the U1300Ls still serve as workhorses in many different..

Vehicles of 2 Battalion REME - Equipment Support to 7th Armoured Brigade "To keep operationally fit equipment in the hands of troops in the most cost-effective manner". This motto describes the core task of 2 Battalion REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) which includes the maintenance, ..

British Cold War Military Trucks - FoDEN Commercial Pattern Low Mobility, Medium Mobility and Variants The Commercial Pattern Low Mobility; Commercial Pattern Improved Low Mobility; Medium Mobility; and Improved Medium Mobility truck ranges were designed by Foden to meet British Army requirements fo..