Krauss-Maffei Sd.Kfz.7 8-ton Half-track
Luftwaffe Airbone Tank Division
Eastern Front, Summer 1941
(Hobby Master HG5001)
- Weight: 12 tons
- Dimensions: 22'6" x 7'9" x 8'7"
- Crew: 1 + 11 passengers
- Power Plant: Maybach HL62 TUK 6-cylinder gasoline engine 133hp
- Payload: 1,800 kg
- Speed: 31 mph
- Notes: The Sd.Kfz.7 was a half-track military vehicle used by the German Wehrmacht Heer, Luftwaffe and Waffen-SS during the Second World War. Sd.Kfz. is an abbreviation of the German word Sonderkraftfahrzeug, "special purpose vehicle". A longer designation is Sd.Kfz.7 mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 8t, "medium towing motor vehicle 8t".
Designed by Krauss-Maffei between 1934 and 1938, it was intended as a prime mover for the 8.8 cm FlaK gun and the 15 cm sFH 18 150 mm howitzer. Production was stopped in 1944. The vehicle was made by Krauss-Maffei in Munich, the Saurerwerke in Vienna and the Borgward works at Bremen with a total of more than 12,000 built.
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