laitimes

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

author:Cold Cannon History

This article is published with the authorization of the official account "Nibelungen Factory"

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Photograph from the Archives of the Royal Swedish Army, a No. 3 Assault Gun G with a swinging side skirt and additional armor on the side of the battle room, with a 50+30 mm screw structure in the nose armor. This is a typical MIAG production vehicle with a small square in the form of a small square and an empty piece of chassis serial number in front of the right side of the battle room. The Miag plant's production vehicles may never have been fitted with a cast "pig's head" shield, and a trapezoidal shield has been used.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Both short-barreled No. 3 assault guns were fitted with swinging side skirts that appeared later and additional armor on the sides of the battle chamber, and the specific models were a bit difficult to identify, the one in front of them might be type E, the one at the back might be type B, and the nest area at the front of the battle room was filled with cement.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

A No. 3 assault gun G-type of assault division stationed in Rhode Island, Greece, equipped with non-standard side skirts and additional armor, and a darker hull.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

· A Type 3 Assault Gun G similar to the Vehicle Modification Method of the Rhode Island Assault Division, this one fought on the Eastern Front, with slight differences in the style and structure of the skirt and additional armor.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The state of the Swedish Tank Museum's No. 3 Assault Gun Type D in 1947.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Based on the No. 3 Assault Gun F-Type modification of the No. 3 Assault Howitzer, the side of the power chamber also retains the tropical standard additional air filter bracket and pipe.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Tropical version of the No. 3 assault gun G type.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The front of the battle room of the No. 3 assault howitzer was tightly pasted with cement, and a piece of track shoes with pins was poured inside. All of the No. 3 assault howitzers were produced by Arkett, and the "pig's head" shield adapted to the 10.5 cm StuH 42 howitzer was relatively rare.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Later, the No. 3 assault gun F/8 type with a skirt plate was added, and the fixed structure of the skirt plate was different from that of the G type.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

• Late batch of the No. 3 Assault Gun G with swinging side skirts and additional armor in the battle room, its additional armor style is clearly borrowed from the Panzer IV destroyer.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The No. 3 Assault Gun G, built using the No. 3 tank M chassis, has a handle on the transmission access cover.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The "Tigerhal" of the 202nd Assault Artillery Battalion of the Wehrmacht, a Miag production vehicle, the first side skirt was partially cut, the side skirt was fixed with changes, and the head and the front of the fender were equipped with fixtures made of steel wire. The Tiger Shark, which was later captured and photographed by the Soviets, was of an earlier type and was not the same as this one.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The No. 3 Assault Gun D chassis was fitted with an F/8 combat chamber, retaining the StuK 37 short-barrel gun, the NOTEK headlights were changed to the left front traction base, and the nose was welded with 30mm additional armor.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Another No. 3 assault gun similar to the one above, with no altered light fixtures and no additional armor on the bow, but on the front of the battle room.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

· The F-type No. 3 assault gun of the 232nd Assault Gun Battalion of the Wehrmacht, with a side skirt and a non-standard style fixed structure of the side skirt. The battle chamber is covered with a small amount of cement, the bow is equipped with wedge-shaped additional armor, fixed to the top position of the head with rivets, the traction base is also covered, I don't know what to do when anchoring...

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The No. 3 Assault Gun B trainer vehicle with the main gun removed.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

• Late type of the No. 3 assault howitzer with skirt plate removed and logs fixed to the side.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The example of anti-magnetic on the front of the trapezoidal gun shield is relatively rare.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The Anti-Magnetic Coated Assault Gun No. 3 F, 50mm front armor, mounted with side skirts, was abandoned by the Germans in Crimea in 1944.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

In 1944, Arcett used the No. 3 J/L tank chassis to modify the No. 3 assault gun G type, replaced with an all-steel carrier pulley, and the factory was coated with anti-magnetic coating. After it arrived at the unit, the unit added an anti-magnetic coating to the shield and cemented the gap between the nest area and the additional armor on the head/head.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

The Third Assault Gun G of the Tank Annihilation Battalion of the 7th "Prinz Eugen" Mountain Division of the SS, with spare load wheels fixed on both sides of the power chamber. The 112 above installed a car headlight on the left side of the combat chamber, which served as a searchlight, and the wires may be drawn out of the opening of the gun sight. A non-standard anti-aircraft machine gun bracket was installed on the Machine Gun Shield No. 123 picture below, and the firing port of the Machine Gun Shield was also expanded.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns
Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Add additional armor to the sides of the combat room and paint the additional armor with anti-magnetic examples, and the headlights are motorcycle headlights.

Tortoise Metamorphosis: Some of the stranger German No. 3 assault guns

Read on