 Название: Armored Vehicles in the Early XX Century (Extended edition): Weapons and military equipment of the world
Автор: Dick W. Kerry
Издательство: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Год: 2018
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, azw3
Размер: 12.5 MB
This is an extended edition. Here you will find samples of little-known military armored car of the early 20th century.
This book is devoted to wheeled armored vehicles of the early twentieth century. Here the main models of armored cars and their characteristics are published.
Armored cars, as is known, appeared before tanks. The latter were not even in sight, but the armored cars were already in the arsenal of many armies and were successfully used in battles.
The first battle-worthy armored vehicles were created at the very beginning of the 20th century. On April 4, 1902, the English engineer Frederic Simms demonstrated in London his "motor war car". This car became, in fact, the first real armored car in the world. The project, which was completely completed by Simms by the summer of 1898, was acquired by Vickers, Son and Maxim, which carried out the construction.
The car had an armored body open from above, resembling the hull of a warship. Instead of the projected two machine gun towers installed three machine guns, closed shields. For the observation of the battlefield, a periscope was intended. The thickness of the armor reached 6 mm, which provided good protection. As the power plant was used four-cylinder engine "Daimler" with a capacity of 16 hp worked on heavy fuel.
The demonstration of the armored car aroused great interest among the public, but not the ... military ministry: it rejected the idea of Simms.
Contents:
Introduction
Armored car "Austro Daimler" Austria
Cannon armored car Autocanon de 47 mm Renault France
Army armored car Berliet France
Light cannon armored car Autocanon De Dion Bouton Mle 1916 France
Light armored car Armstrong-Whitworth England
Light armored car Austin England
Extended part
Armored car "Minerva"
Armored car Mors (Belgium)
Armored car "Lanchester"
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