This mountain goat combat car uses both wheels and trucks
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This mountain goat combat car uses both wheels and trucks
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COMBINING some of the best fea-
tures of tanks and armored cars, a
new fighting vehicle is credited to
the Germans for use in mountainous
country. Labeled a “mountain goat”
by some observers because of its
speed and agility, the vehicle weighs
about four tons. It is said to be
armed with a 47-mm. cannon and
two 20-mm. machine guns. It has
four pneumatic-tired wheels for use
on roads, and on these it can travel
50 miles an hour. When the going
gets rough, the wheels are hoisted
into the air by means of a worm-
gear arrangement, and the machine
lowers itself onto two continuous
tracks of a type especially adapted
to use on the roughest kind of ter-
rain. Reports say that the “goat”
can maintain speeds of 25 miles an
hour on its tracks on level ground.
It carries a crew of three men, but
it would appear that the positions
they occupy in the accompanying
pictures are their traveling seats
rather than the positions they
would take in combat. The machines
are believed to be used in “mop-
ping-up” operations on the flanks
of an advancing column,
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1941-11
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75
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Public domain
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 139, n. 5, 1941
