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The Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien ("Assault armoured wagon Upper Silesia" from German: der Sturm, the storm, the assault; German: der Panzer, gepanzert the armour, armoured; German: der Wagen the vehicle, wagon) was a German tank project of the First World War. It was a radical design for a fast-moving, lightly armoured assault tank.

Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien
TypeTank
Place of originGerman Empire
Specifications
Mass~19 t
Length6.7 m (22 ft)
Width2.34 m (7.7 ft)
Height2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Crew5

Armor14 mm (0.55 in)
Main
armament
1 x 57 mm (2.2 in) or 37 mm (1.5 in) cannon
Secondary
armament
2 x 8 mm MG 08 machineguns
EngineArgus As III[1]
190 hp (140 kW)
Power/weight10 hp/t (7.4 kW/t)
Operational
range
60 km (37 mi), ~100 km (62 mi) paved road[2]
Maximum speed 16 km/h (9.9 mph) on roads
9 km/h (5.6 mph) off road

The Oberschlesien included a track which was placed under the tank and only wrapped around half of it. The design sacrificed armour for the sake of speed and only required a 180 hp (130 kW) engine for the 19 ton body, giving it a projected ground speed of 16 km/h (9.9 mph).

The tank featured such advanced features as the main armament mounted on top of the tank in a centrally placed revolving turret, separate fighting and engine compartments, a rear-mounted engine and a low track run.


History


Towards the end of the First World War it was clear that the only operational German tank, the A7V, was too expensive to produce and had too large a crew. Therefore, it was decided that a lighter tank was required which could spearhead assaults and which could be mass-produced.

Thirteen companies bid for the contract and in the middle of 1918, construction of a design by Captain Müller was assigned to the Oberschlesien Eisenwerk of Gleiwitz, which had partially completed two prototypes by October. The project received the pseudonym Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia).

Neither the ordered test models, nor the improved "Oberschlesien II" already planned were finished before the end of the war.


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[de] Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien

Der Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien war ein deutsches Panzerprojekt aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg.
- [en] Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien

[ru] Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien

Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien (в переводе с нем. Штурмовой танк «Верхняя Силезия») — немецкий проект экспериментального танка периода Первой мировой войны. Танк имел ряд весьма прогрессивных конструкторских решений, однако из-за поражения Германии в войне проект так и не был реализован в металле.



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