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According a source in 2019 documents and plans went on sale at auction house C & T Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd.
The Document are about German one-man light tank design.
That had been submitted during WW2 to Albert Speer, by Leutnant Franz-Georg Gmelin.
The Tank Label as 1 – Mann – Kleinpanzer Kampfwagen – Maus. one man small tank Mouse (this not relate to the 150 Ton monster by Porsche)
The tank’s dimensions had be 3.0 m long, 1.9 m wide, and 1.3 m high.
It armour would range from 10 mm – 38 mm, angled at 14 – 45 degrees.
Maximum weight would 2,7 metric ton.
An exact engine is not specified in the document, but a speed of 60 km/h would be ideal.
On the tank’s armament, the documentation was not specific.
It propose mixture of automatic Weapons, flamethrower, smoke dischargers, a Panzer-Büchse, a Panzerschreck, or a Panzerfaust.
According the documents, Leutnant Franz-Georg Gmelin proposed the tank on 26.06.1944 to Ministry,
only to get a rejection on 13.11.1944.
Source:
tanks-encyclopedia.com
The Document are about German one-man light tank design.
That had been submitted during WW2 to Albert Speer, by Leutnant Franz-Georg Gmelin.
The Tank Label as 1 – Mann – Kleinpanzer Kampfwagen – Maus. one man small tank Mouse (this not relate to the 150 Ton monster by Porsche)
The tank’s dimensions had be 3.0 m long, 1.9 m wide, and 1.3 m high.
It armour would range from 10 mm – 38 mm, angled at 14 – 45 degrees.
Maximum weight would 2,7 metric ton.
An exact engine is not specified in the document, but a speed of 60 km/h would be ideal.
On the tank’s armament, the documentation was not specific.
It propose mixture of automatic Weapons, flamethrower, smoke dischargers, a Panzer-Büchse, a Panzerschreck, or a Panzerfaust.
According the documents, Leutnant Franz-Georg Gmelin proposed the tank on 26.06.1944 to Ministry,
only to get a rejection on 13.11.1944.
Source:
Maus 1-Man KleinpanzerKampfwagen - Tank Encyclopedia
In 2016 a bundle of plans and documents went up for sale. They showed previously unseen blueprints for a German one-man light tank design.
tanks-encyclopedia.com
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