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Germany Panzer I and Variants
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Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.A (Sd.Kfz.101)
Taken to distinguish between "early" and "late" version. In fact, it's not entirely true, but rather should be distinguished manufacturers. It was made 349 - the factories Henschel («early" version) and 128 - in factories MAN («Late" version). Serial numbers - from 10 001 to 10 477.
The tank was mounted engine Pz.l Ausf.A Krupp M305, 4-cylinder, carburetor, horizontally opposed, air-cooled, power 57 hp (42 kW) at 2500 rev / min. Working volume of 3460 cm3. The engine intake initially as if specially created for throwing his grenades. During the Spanish Civil War it was closed an additional sheet.
Fuel - unleaded petrol with an octane number of 76. Carburetor Solex brand 40 JEP. Gearbox ZF Aphon FG35 manual, five-speed (5 + 1).
Chassis tank Pz.l Ausf.A applied to a board composed of four rubber rollers with a diameter of 530 mm and one neobrezinennogo road wheels, a slightly larger diameter, performed the role of the sloth. The front roller has an individual coil spring suspension on the rest were interlocked in pairs on the outer longitudinal beam and suspended on leaf springs chetvertellipticheskih.
Pz.Kpfwl Ausf.A 'Modificado', iliPz.Kpfwl Ausf.A "Breda" (with 20-mm model 1935 gun)
To somehow increase the firepower of the German tanks, some Spaniards in increased tower height Pz.lA established a 20-mm gun Breda mod.35. How many cars have altered so hard to say. Usually, it is reported that several. However, as in domestic and foreign literature is published only five years of the picture with two slightly different reworked tank. These machines are not found in later films.
Pionierpanzer.IA, he same Bruhenleger auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. A
Chassis number Pz.l Ausf.A served as the basis for a vehicle launched bridges designed to overcome various obstacles such as antitank ditches. From two of these machines was obtained by crossing a length of 11m. The bridge has been permanently fixed to the casing of the tank, so bridgelayer breezing into the ditch and his body turned into a kind of support. Survived at least two photos.
2cm Flak38 Sfl.auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.A, he also FlakPanzer I
In early 1941 the company produced Alkett 26 self-propelled antiaircraft installations in chassis Panzer I. On machines dismantled the tower and partially cut turret box mounted 20 mm automatic anti-aircraft guns Flak 38 (for the first two cars, according to some sources, - Flak 30).
Light ZSU entered service 614 of anti-aircraft battalions, three batteries of eight units each. Battery attached to three or four ammunition transporter Munitionschlepper I (often in joint photographs) or Sd.Kfz.250 / 6.
To ensure optimum center of gravity gun, frontal armor was moved ahead by 18-20 cm to increase the area of gun platform was supplied with additional fixed hinged doors. The side doors were made of steel skinned and therefore did not provide protection against fire enemy infantry, and the rear door to a greater degree served as a support for parts of weapons. On a newly created anti-aircraft gun platform with respect to the axis of the machine was shifted to the right, due to which the driver has better access to office management. Gun itself was not fixed "tightly" and could be dismantled by hand calculation for 4 minutes and 6 minutes again mounted on the platform. The only comfort for the crew to march were leather cushioned pad on the platform. Personal weapons - rifles Mauser 98k and some ammunition for the gun fit inside the tank behind the driver's seat. Much of the ammunition and spare barrel to the gun carried in a special trailer (Sd.Ah.51), there were transported in wooden boxes and personal belongings of the crew. Trailer Sd.Ah. 51 anti-aircraft tank received a new elongated coupling. Communication between machines with the aid of signals from the flags, since the radio equipment was dismantled.
Produced a series of 24 units, became the first FlakRanzer I Wehrmacht anti-aircraft tank.
Flammenwerfer auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. A or Flammpanzer I
One tank of 5-th Tank Regiment, 5th Division, Afrika Korps light was converted and flamethrower. Instead of directly tower machine gun MG 13 in it yctanovili standard infantry flamethrower Flaminonwerfer 40 for one-second shots to produce 10.12 at the distance of 25 m. The rearmament of the tank thus participated in the siege of Tobruk in North Africa in May 1941. I know of only one picture of this "miracle" of German military engineering.
Munitionsschlepper auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf.A (Sd.Kfz.111). And, at the same time, Munitionsschlepper B.
In late 1939, the firm Alkett tank 51 Pz. L Ausf. A transporter has been altered by ammunition Munitionschlepper I (Sd. Kfz .111).
In the spring of 1942 chassis models of tanks A and B are also converted into ammunition belts by setting in place the tower of a large rectangular box, welded from sheet steel. 12 machines of this type were used in PzGrenDiv SS «Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler».
KleinerPanzerBefehlsWagen (Sd.Kfz.265)
The most common and probably the most famous was Kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen (small armored command vehicle), which was produced as a chassis and the chassis B. It was the designation KI.Pz.Bf.Wg. (Modification 1KIA, 2KIB and 3KIB) or Sd.Kfz.265.
They did not have a tower, and body height was increased to 250 mm.
At first these machines were produced without armament, then on the front of the chassis set up machine gun MG 13.
From 1936 to 1938, the company Daimler-Benz has released two series of cars on the chassis (number 15, 001 - 15 200). The tanks were armed with a gun 2KIB MG 347, set in the embrasure. High commander's cupola on them sometimes absent. The thickness of the frontal armor than 1KIA was increased from 13 mm to 14.5 mm. On 3KIB thickness of armor increased to 19 mm. The machine gun was placed in a ball set. Higher commander's cupola was replaced with a low, with two leaf hatch.
Initially, command vehicles had a tough antenna mast on a wooden frame, which was soon replaced by a loop antenna width 2000 mm. Since 1939, established a more practical whip antenna.
SchulfahrzeugeAili PanzerkampfwagenIAusf.A ohneAufbau, immediately and InstandsetzugKraftwagenI, together with SchulfahrzeugeB
In fairly large quantities produced educational tanks are, in fact, tracked chassis without top armored corps. Strictly speaking, the first troops arrived in those. In the spring of 1934 produced 15 training machines Ausf.A, a 1936 to November 1938 - 164 Ausf.B. In addition to use as a training, these machines until 1941 served as a retriever. In 1942, almost all of them were equipped with gas generators.
A few dozen tanks modification of A and B were already in parts of the machine conversion of technical assistance Instandsetzug Kraftwagen I. Since the tank was shot tower and cut the top part bronekorpusa. The result of this open cargo bed. They were used for the transport of spare parts, fuel cans, oil and water, some have installed a Plexiglas windshield and an awning over the loading platform.
Pz.Kpfwl Ausf.V
A modification of the problem the Germans have tried to solve equipping tank 6-cylinder, carbureted, liquid-cooled inline engine Maybach NL 38TR 100 hp (73.6 kW), the working volume of 3791 cm3, the gearbox Aphon FG31. Since this motor was noticeably more than the first, had to lengthen the body by 400 mm. As a result, the chassis has another pair of rollers, and the sloth was slightly elevated above ground level. Also, changed the rear wall and roof of the engine compartment. Exhaust taken out through the back side, unlike Pz.l Ausf.A, who had two exhaust pipes on the sides.
On the first series of machines used by machine gun MG 13, which were later replaced by more modern MG 34. Since 1936, the ammunition was increased to 90 stores. The tank received a new radio transceiver FuG 5. In all other respects the two versions were virtually identical.
Serial numbers of these machines from number 10 478 to 000 and number 15 from number 15 number 16 201 to 500. Continuity of serial numbers used for disinformation.
Manufacture of tanks modification was carried out in factories Henschel, Krupp-Gruson in Magdeburg, and in 1936, and in MAN factory in Nuremberg and Wegmann in Kassel. Their production continued until mid 1937. During this time the tank was manufactured in 1016 Pz.l Ausf.B.
Panzerjager I, it is 4.7cm Pak (t) (Sf)
The winter of 1940 the company received an order for Alkett design and manufacture of light self-propelled guns with 47-mm gun of Czech (gun "Skoda" or 4,7 cm Pak (t), as it was called in German documents) and tank chassis Pz.I.
Gun mounted on the chassis Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.B, and instead of the regular shield, it was an open top and rear cabin with a wall thickness of 14.5mm ("early" version.) The horizontal angle was 17,5 ° pointing to the side, vertical ranged from - 8 ° to 12 °. Machine with built tank radios Fu Fu 2 or 5.
Gun ammunition consisted of 86 unitary rounds. To fire the guns were originally used armor-piercing projectiles Austrian and Czechoslovak samples. In 1940, it developed a 47-mm projectile piercing.
As such, the ACS, called 4,7 cm Pak (t) Sfl auf Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.B (Sd.Kfz.101), in March 1940 was accepted into service. It began its production - or rather, re-equipment, firms Alkett and Daimler-Benz. In the first final assembly was carried out self-propelled guns, the second - major repairs of worn-out chassis and engine "of ones."
During the summer and autumn of 1940 to Panzerjager I spent the first "modernization" of machines. It was to replace the old armor cutting a little more spacious and fully welded ("later" version). In 1940 was issued another order on Panzerjager I - 70 machines (from other sources - 60).
In the summer battles of 1941 Panzerjager I with discarding sabot ammunition to show themselves very well. Odingo of anti-tank battalions (605.Pz.Jag.Abt.) Fought in the DAK. Last known combat scenes involving Panzerjager I refer to the period defense of Stalingrad in the autumn of 1942.
15 cmsIG 33 Sfl.auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.B or 15cm SiG 33 (Sf)
Another self-propelled guns, tank chassis set up on Panzer I, was a 150-mm self-propelled infantry gun. This machine can be considered as the first German serial self-propelled.
Demonstration of a prototype self-propelled guns and ammunition carrier (at the earliest self-propelled guns ammunition is transported) Wehrmacht was held on 29 January 1940, which was followed by an order for 38 machines.
150 mm heavy infantry gun sIG 33 (sIG - schwere Infanterie Geschutz) with a barrel 11.4-gauge, developed by Kgirr in 1927, was established on the roof of the shell Pz.l with gun carriage and wheels ("early" version.) To protect the instruments from the three sides had been constructed cumbersome cutting, welded from 10-mm bronelistov. The height of the machine over 3 m, weight increased to 8.5 tons, as the gun itself in a combat-ready status weighed 1750 kg. The angle of the horizontal fire sIG 33, mounted on tank chassis, was 25 °, vertical -4 ° to +75 °. Charging separate, bolt piston. Initially, staff did not have a gun piercing ammunition, but with the fall of 1941, was included in the cumulative ammunition projectile Gr 39H1 / A mass of 25 kg. However, its presence in the ammunition during wartime conditions, it was rare for the fire, mainly used in high-explosive and smoke grenades. The fire was through the regular sight Rblf 36.
In serial alterations Ammunition ammunition consisted of 8 rounds. Six of them were placed on the outside: two shells in woven muffler on the left wing, one on the right wing, two rounds on a gun carriage guns and a bomb was under the gun carriage, which has hosted two rounds I do not know (obviously, somewhere inside cabin).
At the last of the newly released ACS instrument installed without the wheels on special props ("later" version).
As part of the 701 th - 706 th infantry heavy weapons mouth these cars took part in the fighting in France and the Balkans, and later on the Eastern Front. In autumn 1943 a self-propelled guns of this type was still in service with the 704 th company of heavy infantry guns
In January-February 1940, the company produced the very Alkett 38 ACS. Machinery involved in the French and Balkan campaigns, as well as on the Eastern Front. After the war, they mistakenly called the ACS by some authors "Bison." What is not correct methodologically. But the error multiplied.
Panzer I Ambulance B
Altered the machine and directly into the parts. There is a picture Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.B, owned a Pz.Abt., I Pz.Div., Which was transformed into a makeshift ambulance. It instead bronekorpusa mounted on top and an open rear cabin. Inside, apparently, arranged for mounting a stretcher. This car was shot down and Belgium and 1940.
Ladungsleger I
The most original design, created on the basis Pz.l Ausf.B was Ladungsleger I, armored tracked vehicle for subversion and assault engineer units. In the first version it was equipped with a special rails arranged obliquely above the engine compartment. They placed a 50-kg explosive charge, dumping it on the ground was carried out using a chain of transmission. The second option was structurally more complex. Explosive charge weighing 75 kg, fit into a box mounted on the frame end almost two meters in length, which is mounted on the roof of the engine compartment of the tank. With cable-operated bottom drawer opened - and the charge was dumped on the roof of the bunker or other structure, which required detonation.
Prototypes were built Ladungsleger I at the end of 1939.
Winter of 1939/40, in the railway workshops Talbot in Aachen, it was converted into Ladungsleger (it is sometimes called Zerstorerpanzer - tank destroyer), about 30 tanks Pz.l Ausf.B. It is true that in combat they are not used. A small number of them participated in the French (for example, in the 58th engineer battalion of the 7th Armored Division) and Balkan campaigns, as well as in the initial phase of "Operation Barbarossa."
Pz. Kpfw.IAusf. C
September 15, 1939 management arms of the Third Reich has decided to develop a light combat vehicle that could be used as intelligence and support for airborne operations. The latter implies the possibility of carrying it through the air with heavy transport aircraft, such as the Me-321 Gigant.
Tank on a project, dubbed Pz.I nA VK 601 (nA - neuer Art - a new type, 6 weight, 01 number of the project), worked together to firm Krauss-Maffei and Daimler-Benz. In the first manufactured chassis with staggered rollers, which developed the design engineer, Colonel V. Knipkamp, the second tower has been designed and housing. The machine has an army index Pz.I Ausf.C, but the previous models' of ones "had nothing to do.
Housing tank welded from rolled armor plates a maximum thickness of 30 mm. In the welded turret mounted 20 mm automatic cannon EW 141 and paired with her machine gun MG 34. The vertical angle pointing ranged from -10 ° to +20 °. The fire was through the telescopic sight TZF 10. Carburetor, 6-cylinder Maybach HL 45P engine rated at 150 hp and transmission with eight-transmission (8 +2) provide good dynamic performance of the tank. Chassis consisted of five road wheels on the side, arranged in staggered rows. Driving wheel in front, directing - behind. Suspension - the individual, the torsion bar.
From July to December 1942 workshop company Krauss-Maffei, which produced the final assembly of tanks, left 40 (according to other sources 46) combat vehicles. Two of them in early 1943, were tested in the 1st Armored Division on the Eastern Front. Others joined the 58th Reserve Panzer Corps.
At least one prototype was Ausf.C as an experiment has a rubber-metal caterpillar, is set on semi-tracked armored personnel carriers and trucks.
Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.F
Despite the fact that the tank for infantry support, and simultaneously to perform police functions did not fit into a weapons system Panzerwaffe, December 22, 1939 the company Krauss-Maffei and Daimler-Benz were tasked to develop it. However, the requirements for the tank were very contradictory, and vague job. Again returned to the project until the winter of 1941/1942 year. TTM have been refined in order to make the car combat capabilities needed, mainly for the fight with the guerrillas.
The body of the tank, the designation Pz.l nA vers (verstarkt - reinforced) VK 1801, designed by Daimler-Benz. In the frontal part of the thickness bronelistov reached 80 mm. As the power plant used engine Maybach HL 45P - the same as on Pz.l Ausf.C. But now his power to 150 hp enough to disperse a small but heavy car only up to 25 km / h. In the first prototype installed gearbox ZF SSG 47, the second prototype, VK 1802, and on serial machines - a four-box (4 +1) with a preliminary choice of gear Maybach VG 15 319. Through the use of track width 540 mm, the tank was very good cross, but due to staggered rollers and torsion bar suspension - smooth ride.
Armament consisted of two MG 34 machine guns, installed in a common mask. The trunks were covered armored gun casings. The vertical angle pointing ranged from -10 ° to +20 °. Scope - binocular telescopic TZF 8.
Original design had the tower tank. Essentially cylindrical, the outside it had a conical shape due to the hollow "skirt." The rotation of the tower was carried out using a mechanical rotation mechanism. On the roof of the tower had been installed five periscope observation devices.
By the end of 1942 produced 30 tanks Pz.l Ausf.F, then canceled the order. In 1943, eight cars were sent to the Eastern Front in the 1st Armored Division.
Taken to distinguish between "early" and "late" version. In fact, it's not entirely true, but rather should be distinguished manufacturers. It was made 349 - the factories Henschel («early" version) and 128 - in factories MAN («Late" version). Serial numbers - from 10 001 to 10 477.
The tank was mounted engine Pz.l Ausf.A Krupp M305, 4-cylinder, carburetor, horizontally opposed, air-cooled, power 57 hp (42 kW) at 2500 rev / min. Working volume of 3460 cm3. The engine intake initially as if specially created for throwing his grenades. During the Spanish Civil War it was closed an additional sheet.
Fuel - unleaded petrol with an octane number of 76. Carburetor Solex brand 40 JEP. Gearbox ZF Aphon FG35 manual, five-speed (5 + 1).
Chassis tank Pz.l Ausf.A applied to a board composed of four rubber rollers with a diameter of 530 mm and one neobrezinennogo road wheels, a slightly larger diameter, performed the role of the sloth. The front roller has an individual coil spring suspension on the rest were interlocked in pairs on the outer longitudinal beam and suspended on leaf springs chetvertellipticheskih.
Pz.Kpfwl Ausf.A 'Modificado', iliPz.Kpfwl Ausf.A "Breda" (with 20-mm model 1935 gun)
To somehow increase the firepower of the German tanks, some Spaniards in increased tower height Pz.lA established a 20-mm gun Breda mod.35. How many cars have altered so hard to say. Usually, it is reported that several. However, as in domestic and foreign literature is published only five years of the picture with two slightly different reworked tank. These machines are not found in later films.
Pionierpanzer.IA, he same Bruhenleger auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. A
Chassis number Pz.l Ausf.A served as the basis for a vehicle launched bridges designed to overcome various obstacles such as antitank ditches. From two of these machines was obtained by crossing a length of 11m. The bridge has been permanently fixed to the casing of the tank, so bridgelayer breezing into the ditch and his body turned into a kind of support. Survived at least two photos.
2cm Flak38 Sfl.auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.A, he also FlakPanzer I
In early 1941 the company produced Alkett 26 self-propelled antiaircraft installations in chassis Panzer I. On machines dismantled the tower and partially cut turret box mounted 20 mm automatic anti-aircraft guns Flak 38 (for the first two cars, according to some sources, - Flak 30).
Light ZSU entered service 614 of anti-aircraft battalions, three batteries of eight units each. Battery attached to three or four ammunition transporter Munitionschlepper I (often in joint photographs) or Sd.Kfz.250 / 6.
To ensure optimum center of gravity gun, frontal armor was moved ahead by 18-20 cm to increase the area of gun platform was supplied with additional fixed hinged doors. The side doors were made of steel skinned and therefore did not provide protection against fire enemy infantry, and the rear door to a greater degree served as a support for parts of weapons. On a newly created anti-aircraft gun platform with respect to the axis of the machine was shifted to the right, due to which the driver has better access to office management. Gun itself was not fixed "tightly" and could be dismantled by hand calculation for 4 minutes and 6 minutes again mounted on the platform. The only comfort for the crew to march were leather cushioned pad on the platform. Personal weapons - rifles Mauser 98k and some ammunition for the gun fit inside the tank behind the driver's seat. Much of the ammunition and spare barrel to the gun carried in a special trailer (Sd.Ah.51), there were transported in wooden boxes and personal belongings of the crew. Trailer Sd.Ah. 51 anti-aircraft tank received a new elongated coupling. Communication between machines with the aid of signals from the flags, since the radio equipment was dismantled.
Produced a series of 24 units, became the first FlakRanzer I Wehrmacht anti-aircraft tank.
Flammenwerfer auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. A or Flammpanzer I
One tank of 5-th Tank Regiment, 5th Division, Afrika Korps light was converted and flamethrower. Instead of directly tower machine gun MG 13 in it yctanovili standard infantry flamethrower Flaminonwerfer 40 for one-second shots to produce 10.12 at the distance of 25 m. The rearmament of the tank thus participated in the siege of Tobruk in North Africa in May 1941. I know of only one picture of this "miracle" of German military engineering.
Munitionsschlepper auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf.A (Sd.Kfz.111). And, at the same time, Munitionsschlepper B.
In late 1939, the firm Alkett tank 51 Pz. L Ausf. A transporter has been altered by ammunition Munitionschlepper I (Sd. Kfz .111).
In the spring of 1942 chassis models of tanks A and B are also converted into ammunition belts by setting in place the tower of a large rectangular box, welded from sheet steel. 12 machines of this type were used in PzGrenDiv SS «Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler».
KleinerPanzerBefehlsWagen (Sd.Kfz.265)
The most common and probably the most famous was Kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen (small armored command vehicle), which was produced as a chassis and the chassis B. It was the designation KI.Pz.Bf.Wg. (Modification 1KIA, 2KIB and 3KIB) or Sd.Kfz.265.
They did not have a tower, and body height was increased to 250 mm.
At first these machines were produced without armament, then on the front of the chassis set up machine gun MG 13.
From 1936 to 1938, the company Daimler-Benz has released two series of cars on the chassis (number 15, 001 - 15 200). The tanks were armed with a gun 2KIB MG 347, set in the embrasure. High commander's cupola on them sometimes absent. The thickness of the frontal armor than 1KIA was increased from 13 mm to 14.5 mm. On 3KIB thickness of armor increased to 19 mm. The machine gun was placed in a ball set. Higher commander's cupola was replaced with a low, with two leaf hatch.
Initially, command vehicles had a tough antenna mast on a wooden frame, which was soon replaced by a loop antenna width 2000 mm. Since 1939, established a more practical whip antenna.
SchulfahrzeugeAili PanzerkampfwagenIAusf.A ohneAufbau, immediately and InstandsetzugKraftwagenI, together with SchulfahrzeugeB
In fairly large quantities produced educational tanks are, in fact, tracked chassis without top armored corps. Strictly speaking, the first troops arrived in those. In the spring of 1934 produced 15 training machines Ausf.A, a 1936 to November 1938 - 164 Ausf.B. In addition to use as a training, these machines until 1941 served as a retriever. In 1942, almost all of them were equipped with gas generators.
A few dozen tanks modification of A and B were already in parts of the machine conversion of technical assistance Instandsetzug Kraftwagen I. Since the tank was shot tower and cut the top part bronekorpusa. The result of this open cargo bed. They were used for the transport of spare parts, fuel cans, oil and water, some have installed a Plexiglas windshield and an awning over the loading platform.
Pz.Kpfwl Ausf.V
A modification of the problem the Germans have tried to solve equipping tank 6-cylinder, carbureted, liquid-cooled inline engine Maybach NL 38TR 100 hp (73.6 kW), the working volume of 3791 cm3, the gearbox Aphon FG31. Since this motor was noticeably more than the first, had to lengthen the body by 400 mm. As a result, the chassis has another pair of rollers, and the sloth was slightly elevated above ground level. Also, changed the rear wall and roof of the engine compartment. Exhaust taken out through the back side, unlike Pz.l Ausf.A, who had two exhaust pipes on the sides.
On the first series of machines used by machine gun MG 13, which were later replaced by more modern MG 34. Since 1936, the ammunition was increased to 90 stores. The tank received a new radio transceiver FuG 5. In all other respects the two versions were virtually identical.
Serial numbers of these machines from number 10 478 to 000 and number 15 from number 15 number 16 201 to 500. Continuity of serial numbers used for disinformation.
Manufacture of tanks modification was carried out in factories Henschel, Krupp-Gruson in Magdeburg, and in 1936, and in MAN factory in Nuremberg and Wegmann in Kassel. Their production continued until mid 1937. During this time the tank was manufactured in 1016 Pz.l Ausf.B.
Panzerjager I, it is 4.7cm Pak (t) (Sf)
The winter of 1940 the company received an order for Alkett design and manufacture of light self-propelled guns with 47-mm gun of Czech (gun "Skoda" or 4,7 cm Pak (t), as it was called in German documents) and tank chassis Pz.I.
Gun mounted on the chassis Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.B, and instead of the regular shield, it was an open top and rear cabin with a wall thickness of 14.5mm ("early" version.) The horizontal angle was 17,5 ° pointing to the side, vertical ranged from - 8 ° to 12 °. Machine with built tank radios Fu Fu 2 or 5.
Gun ammunition consisted of 86 unitary rounds. To fire the guns were originally used armor-piercing projectiles Austrian and Czechoslovak samples. In 1940, it developed a 47-mm projectile piercing.
As such, the ACS, called 4,7 cm Pak (t) Sfl auf Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.B (Sd.Kfz.101), in March 1940 was accepted into service. It began its production - or rather, re-equipment, firms Alkett and Daimler-Benz. In the first final assembly was carried out self-propelled guns, the second - major repairs of worn-out chassis and engine "of ones."
During the summer and autumn of 1940 to Panzerjager I spent the first "modernization" of machines. It was to replace the old armor cutting a little more spacious and fully welded ("later" version). In 1940 was issued another order on Panzerjager I - 70 machines (from other sources - 60).
In the summer battles of 1941 Panzerjager I with discarding sabot ammunition to show themselves very well. Odingo of anti-tank battalions (605.Pz.Jag.Abt.) Fought in the DAK. Last known combat scenes involving Panzerjager I refer to the period defense of Stalingrad in the autumn of 1942.
15 cmsIG 33 Sfl.auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.B or 15cm SiG 33 (Sf)
Another self-propelled guns, tank chassis set up on Panzer I, was a 150-mm self-propelled infantry gun. This machine can be considered as the first German serial self-propelled.
Demonstration of a prototype self-propelled guns and ammunition carrier (at the earliest self-propelled guns ammunition is transported) Wehrmacht was held on 29 January 1940, which was followed by an order for 38 machines.
150 mm heavy infantry gun sIG 33 (sIG - schwere Infanterie Geschutz) with a barrel 11.4-gauge, developed by Kgirr in 1927, was established on the roof of the shell Pz.l with gun carriage and wheels ("early" version.) To protect the instruments from the three sides had been constructed cumbersome cutting, welded from 10-mm bronelistov. The height of the machine over 3 m, weight increased to 8.5 tons, as the gun itself in a combat-ready status weighed 1750 kg. The angle of the horizontal fire sIG 33, mounted on tank chassis, was 25 °, vertical -4 ° to +75 °. Charging separate, bolt piston. Initially, staff did not have a gun piercing ammunition, but with the fall of 1941, was included in the cumulative ammunition projectile Gr 39H1 / A mass of 25 kg. However, its presence in the ammunition during wartime conditions, it was rare for the fire, mainly used in high-explosive and smoke grenades. The fire was through the regular sight Rblf 36.
In serial alterations Ammunition ammunition consisted of 8 rounds. Six of them were placed on the outside: two shells in woven muffler on the left wing, one on the right wing, two rounds on a gun carriage guns and a bomb was under the gun carriage, which has hosted two rounds I do not know (obviously, somewhere inside cabin).
At the last of the newly released ACS instrument installed without the wheels on special props ("later" version).
As part of the 701 th - 706 th infantry heavy weapons mouth these cars took part in the fighting in France and the Balkans, and later on the Eastern Front. In autumn 1943 a self-propelled guns of this type was still in service with the 704 th company of heavy infantry guns
In January-February 1940, the company produced the very Alkett 38 ACS. Machinery involved in the French and Balkan campaigns, as well as on the Eastern Front. After the war, they mistakenly called the ACS by some authors "Bison." What is not correct methodologically. But the error multiplied.
Panzer I Ambulance B
Altered the machine and directly into the parts. There is a picture Pz.Kpfw.l Ausf.B, owned a Pz.Abt., I Pz.Div., Which was transformed into a makeshift ambulance. It instead bronekorpusa mounted on top and an open rear cabin. Inside, apparently, arranged for mounting a stretcher. This car was shot down and Belgium and 1940.
Ladungsleger I
The most original design, created on the basis Pz.l Ausf.B was Ladungsleger I, armored tracked vehicle for subversion and assault engineer units. In the first version it was equipped with a special rails arranged obliquely above the engine compartment. They placed a 50-kg explosive charge, dumping it on the ground was carried out using a chain of transmission. The second option was structurally more complex. Explosive charge weighing 75 kg, fit into a box mounted on the frame end almost two meters in length, which is mounted on the roof of the engine compartment of the tank. With cable-operated bottom drawer opened - and the charge was dumped on the roof of the bunker or other structure, which required detonation.
Prototypes were built Ladungsleger I at the end of 1939.
Winter of 1939/40, in the railway workshops Talbot in Aachen, it was converted into Ladungsleger (it is sometimes called Zerstorerpanzer - tank destroyer), about 30 tanks Pz.l Ausf.B. It is true that in combat they are not used. A small number of them participated in the French (for example, in the 58th engineer battalion of the 7th Armored Division) and Balkan campaigns, as well as in the initial phase of "Operation Barbarossa."
Pz. Kpfw.IAusf. C
September 15, 1939 management arms of the Third Reich has decided to develop a light combat vehicle that could be used as intelligence and support for airborne operations. The latter implies the possibility of carrying it through the air with heavy transport aircraft, such as the Me-321 Gigant.
Tank on a project, dubbed Pz.I nA VK 601 (nA - neuer Art - a new type, 6 weight, 01 number of the project), worked together to firm Krauss-Maffei and Daimler-Benz. In the first manufactured chassis with staggered rollers, which developed the design engineer, Colonel V. Knipkamp, the second tower has been designed and housing. The machine has an army index Pz.I Ausf.C, but the previous models' of ones "had nothing to do.
Housing tank welded from rolled armor plates a maximum thickness of 30 mm. In the welded turret mounted 20 mm automatic cannon EW 141 and paired with her machine gun MG 34. The vertical angle pointing ranged from -10 ° to +20 °. The fire was through the telescopic sight TZF 10. Carburetor, 6-cylinder Maybach HL 45P engine rated at 150 hp and transmission with eight-transmission (8 +2) provide good dynamic performance of the tank. Chassis consisted of five road wheels on the side, arranged in staggered rows. Driving wheel in front, directing - behind. Suspension - the individual, the torsion bar.
From July to December 1942 workshop company Krauss-Maffei, which produced the final assembly of tanks, left 40 (according to other sources 46) combat vehicles. Two of them in early 1943, were tested in the 1st Armored Division on the Eastern Front. Others joined the 58th Reserve Panzer Corps.
At least one prototype was Ausf.C as an experiment has a rubber-metal caterpillar, is set on semi-tracked armored personnel carriers and trucks.
Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.F
Despite the fact that the tank for infantry support, and simultaneously to perform police functions did not fit into a weapons system Panzerwaffe, December 22, 1939 the company Krauss-Maffei and Daimler-Benz were tasked to develop it. However, the requirements for the tank were very contradictory, and vague job. Again returned to the project until the winter of 1941/1942 year. TTM have been refined in order to make the car combat capabilities needed, mainly for the fight with the guerrillas.
The body of the tank, the designation Pz.l nA vers (verstarkt - reinforced) VK 1801, designed by Daimler-Benz. In the frontal part of the thickness bronelistov reached 80 mm. As the power plant used engine Maybach HL 45P - the same as on Pz.l Ausf.C. But now his power to 150 hp enough to disperse a small but heavy car only up to 25 km / h. In the first prototype installed gearbox ZF SSG 47, the second prototype, VK 1802, and on serial machines - a four-box (4 +1) with a preliminary choice of gear Maybach VG 15 319. Through the use of track width 540 mm, the tank was very good cross, but due to staggered rollers and torsion bar suspension - smooth ride.
Armament consisted of two MG 34 machine guns, installed in a common mask. The trunks were covered armored gun casings. The vertical angle pointing ranged from -10 ° to +20 °. Scope - binocular telescopic TZF 8.
Original design had the tower tank. Essentially cylindrical, the outside it had a conical shape due to the hollow "skirt." The rotation of the tower was carried out using a mechanical rotation mechanism. On the roof of the tower had been installed five periscope observation devices.
By the end of 1942 produced 30 tanks Pz.l Ausf.F, then canceled the order. In 1943, eight cars were sent to the Eastern Front in the 1st Armored Division.