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Half-track
Maultier
Opel Maultier exiting from a Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant transport.
Type
Half-track
Place of origin
Nazi Germany
Service history
In service
1941 - 1945
Wars
World War II
Production history
Designed
1941
Produced
1942-1944
No. built
20,945
Specifications
Mass
3,930–5,500 kg (8,660–12,130 lb) [1]
Length
5.95–7.9 m (19 ft 6 in – 25 ft 11 in)
Width
2.25–2.36 m (7 ft 5 in – 7 ft 9 in)
Height
2.1–3.2 m (6 ft 11 in – 10 ft 6 in)
Crew
2
Armor
none
Engine
3.6-litre 6-cyl petrol engine (Opel Blitz)
Maximum speed
36–38 km/h (22–24 mph)
Maultier (English: "mule") or Sd.Kfz. 3 is the name given to series of half-track trucks used by Nazi Germany during World War II. They were based on Opel, Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo or Ford trucks.
^Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage, German Military Vehicles of World War II: An Illustrated Guide to Cars, p. 112
Maultier (English: "mule") or Sd.Kfz. 3 is the name given to series of half-track trucks used by Nazi Germany during World War II. They were based on Opel...
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Later in the war, 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41s were mounted on modified Opel Maultier "Mule" halftracks, becoming Panzerwerfer 42 4/1s. Another version produced...
armored Sd.Kfz. 4 "Maultier" half-track chassis as the 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz. 4/1 (based on the Opel "Maultier", or "Mule", half-track)...
conditions and the rasputitsa mud seasons on the Eastern Front, a half-tracked Maultier ("mule") Sd.Kfz. 3 version was built using tracks and suspension based...
Porsche. Those still in use in late 1943 were modified and renamed Elefant. Maultier - "mule" conversions of trucks to half tracks Sd.Kfz. 2 Sd.Kfz. 4 Sd.Kfz...
the Bulge. No vehicles are known to have survived to the present day. Maultier Raupenschlepper Ost Spremo 1991, p. 114. Spremo 1991, p. 115-116. Cedrych...
military production took over. Ford-Werke built both conventional trucks and Maultier half-tracks for the German armed forces. Most notably, Ford-Werke manufactured...
in the project waned. Not only did this British parallel to the German Maultier not go into production, the single prototype was converted back into an...
15 cm Panzerwerfer auf Sf (Sd.Kfz. 4/1), based on the Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track Maultier. The Panzerwerfer mount had armor 10 millimetres (0.39 in) thick. schweren...
the Panzer 38(t)) Maschinengewehrkraftwagen (designation for the Kfz 13) Maultier (halftrack conversion of various trucks) Maus (common name for the Panzer...
for Italian army. Some of 800RE were also converted to German Army as Maultier, this vehicle had also tracks in rear. The 800 was replaced by the model...
in the Armoured brigade as tractors for 2 cm Flak 38. Ford V3000s/SSM Maultier (Germany) - 384 Sd.Kfz.3b were supplied under the Barbara supply programme...
slang for fighting with NBC-protective gear, or at least with gas mask Maultier – Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track truck, German for mule Maus – "mouse"; nickname...
Press, 2008, pp. 580–605, ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1 "Esel", "Landtransport", "Maultier", "Pferd", "Rind", in Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997– Greco-Roman...
efficient and reliable vehicles. From 1942 onwards about 4,000 half-track (Maultier) and multiple rocket launcher (Panzerwerfer) versions were built mainly...
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