About the Schneider CA1 (Carro de asalto de artillería), designed by France, 6 men crew carrying a 75 mm howitzer and two 8 mm Hotchkiss machine guns. Sent to Morocco in 1922, used in first amphibious tank landing at Alhucemas in 1925 (12 tanks). Hope it helps.
Thanks all for the information,especially the great pictures! Is that a real A7V in the photo FNG? and if so,where is it? and where did you find the model kit ? once again thanks!
Yep, it´s on display in the large Tankmuseum Munster(Germany). http://www.munster.de/pzm/content/specials/a7v.htm Regards, Che.
The Imperial War Museum of the North (Manchester) has the front gun of an A7V or at least did a couple of years ago.
Actually it's not. Well it is real in that it's an A7V, but not real in that it didn't exist untill recently. It's a full scale copy (built in the 1980s I think) of the only surviving wartime A7V that's somewhere in Queensland Australia.
Sturmpanzerwagen A7V The a7v was a large and bulky veicle with a crew of 18 and carried 6 machine guns. The main armerment was 57-mm russian gun to the front of the hull. It proved to have poor cross country performance due to a ground clearence of only 40mm ans only a small lenth of track on the ground. It weight 33 tons and had a maximum speed of 12.9 km/h (8mph) with a range of 40km(25miles) Only 20 of these were produced, many seeing service in the polish army.
hmm, you´ve to consider the tech. standards at that time, so I wouldn´t say that it was so poor. * 501 Gretchen: scrapped by the Allies in 1919 (Female). * 502: Scrapped by Germans in October 1918. * 503: Scrapped by Germans in October 1918. * 504 Schnuck: lost at Fremicourt 31 August 1918 (Female). * 505 Baden I: scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 506 Mephisto: lost at Villers-Bretonneux 24 April 1918, recovered by Australians, now in Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. * 507 Cyklop: scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 525 Siegfried: scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 526: Scrapped by Germans in 1 June 1918. * 527 Lotti: lost at Pompelle Fort 1 June 1918. * 528 Hagen: lost at Fremicourt 31 August 1918. * 529 Nixe 2: lost at Remis 31 May 1918, recovered by Americans and scrapped at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum in 1942. * 540 Heiland: scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 541: Scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 542 Elfriede: lost at Villers-Bretonneux 24 April 1918 * 543 Hagen, Adalbert,König Wilhelm: scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 560 Alter Fritz: lost at Iwuy 11 October 1918. * 561 Nixe: scrapped by Germans 24 April 1918. * 562 Herkules: scrapped by Germans after 31 August 1918. * 563 Wotan: scrapped by the Allies in 1919. * 564: Scrapped by the Allies in 1919. These are all german A7Vs and their fates Thats 542 Elfride Regards, Che.
the Polish a7V seem to have been urban legends.(as you can see from the above list) On the other hand, on (or two) A7V like vehicles were constructed after the war and used by one of the notorius "freecorps". Probably they were made using an existing chassis (an unarmored A7V chassis was build in some numbers as a cargo carrier) and an improvised armored body, the resulting vehicle looking much like an a7V aglooka
