German Half Tracks 1910 to 1945 - Deutsche Halbkettenfahrzeug

German Half-Tracks of WW 1 & the Second World War
Sources:
German Half-Tracks of World War 1
Daimler Bremer-Wagen Original - strangernn.live...
Daimler Bremer-Wagen - www.unusualloco...
Marienwagen II - Heavy Armored Half-Track from 1917 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Daimler Marienwagon II - landships.activ...
German Half-Tracks of Inter War Years
7,7cm Flugabwehrkanone RK-Schlepper (Krupp / Maffei) - 77mm Wheel-Tracked Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Half-Track from 1930 - aviarmor.net/tw...
ZD5 - Armored Half-Track from 1931 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Selbstfahrlafette 3,7cm L / 70 - 37mm Anti-Tank SAU Half-Track from 1936 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Sd.Kfz.4 - Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1938 -spruebender.net...
Sd.Kfz.6 - Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1938 -
Sd.Kfz.7 - Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1938 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Sd.Kfz. 9 (also known as "Famo" - en.wikipedia.o...
Sd.Kfz.10 - Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1938 -en.wikipedia.o...
German Half-Tracks of World War II
8.8cm Flak 18 Sfl.Auf Zugkraftwagen 12t (Sd.Kfz. 8) - aviarmor.net/tw...
Sd.Kfz.250 - Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1939 - 1941 - en.wikipedia.o...
Sd.Kfz.251 - Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1940 -
Sd.Kfz. 252 leichte Gepanzerte Munitionskraftwagen- www.achtungpanz...
Sd.Kfz.253 - Light Half-Track Armored Personnel Carrier from 1940 Sd.Kfz. 3 Maultier -
Selbstfahrlafette Panzer II - 75mm Anti-ACS Half-Track from 1941 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Sd.Kfz.250 "Alte" - Half-Track from 1941 - commons.wikimed...
Panzerspähwagen RK Ausf.A \ Saurer RK9 - Kolesno- from 1942 -
8.8cm Flak 37 Sfl .Auf 18ton Zgkw - Anti-Aircraft Half-Track1942 -aviarmor.net/tw...
S.WS Schwerer Wermarcht Schlepper - Half-Track from 1943 - aviarmor.net/tw...
2cm Flakvierling 38 \ 3.7cm Flakvierling 36 auf Fahrgestell Zugkraftwagen 8T - Anti-Aircraft Half-Track from 1943 - aviarmor.net/tw...
2cm FlaK 38 vierling auf sWS & 37 mm Flak 43 auf SWs - 20/37-mm Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Half-Track from 1944 - aviarmor.net/tw...
150 mm Panzerwerfer 42 (Zehuling) auf SWs from 1944 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Fauerleitpanzerfahrzeug für V2 Raketen auf Zugkraftwagen 8T - Mobile Post Launch Control V2 from 1944 - aviarmor.net/tw...
Songs:
Symphony No. 5 - by Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata - by Beethoven
Egmont Overture - By Kevin MacLeod Classical | Dramatic
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[@ericvogt7123]

I'm amazed by how many of these I have never seen before.

[@slimbim77]

they had so many of these,different types all over WWII;halftracks were obviously their thing.Good video,fanx.

[@karlaiken6152]

An interesting video with several models not included in Doyle, Chamberlain & Jentz's classic volume on German tanks and armoured vehicles of WW2. I was stunned for example, to see at the end the Mobile V2 launching base. Thanks for sharing.

[@zoegurick9159]

really interesting piece . great to see some of the more obscure vehicles that were thrown into combat across time

[@barfuss2007]

obscure? The 8,8 killed easily ervery excisting allied tank.

[@averylongtimeago8816]

Germany had a very diversified equipment in WW2. Its crazy to see so many rare and never before seen vehicles.

[@jagdpanther6327]

Excellent and informative. For me the Sdk 25O and its variants are the best looking halftracks ever built.🇩🇪

[@nilrem999]

I agree!

[@abdulrazaqibrahim950]

For me everything made in dueschland is great and amazing.

[@OlMrEllis]

My favorite is still the kettenkrad. I'd love to have one, but they're very high maintenance.

[@brandonyuan6542]

I would love to have a Goliath, but without the explosive charge, ww2 segway

[@grandadlovestheo2387]

So is my wife high maintenance. But I would rather have a kattenkrad

[@tempest411]

You vould probsbly build a facsimile of one with a bit of effort.

[@4TheWinQuinn]

Your vids are really great man, thanks for doing them.

[@martinmaier352]

Too many mistakes to make compliments. 3,7 cm Quadruple-AA never existed, a 2 cm Quadruple is shown.

[@tonmeijer5654]

Interresting collection of German halftracks. I loved Beethoven going "Tadadatahhh..." haha 😂

[@garvinhooper]

this was one of the problems with German military vehicles there were way to many different types and nothing was standardized keeping parts and spares must have been a nightmare

[@folkestender2025]

You learned from it, today you do not do that anymore. For example, the US has built huge quantities of standard vehicles in various factories. In Germany, each factory developed and built its own types. These standards existed in Germany only with submarines and smaller naval ships, on which all shipyards built the same type, but not vehicles and aircraft, which was a big mistake.

[@folkestender2025]

@@roberth.goddardthefatherof6376 You need to remember where they were used. It makes a difference whether or not you make war at well-developed Western Europe or Russia. To cross only meadows and fields, it is enough. Another caliber is the Russian winter and especially the time when the soil thaws and you sinks there into the mud. This requires long chains that distribute the weight of the vehicle over a large area.

[@folkestender2025]

@@roberth.goddardthefatherof6376 But the US also had proper half tracks. Whether German developments such as the armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. It is not possible to prove that they contributed to US half tracks development in 1938, but the temporal context is striking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Half-track I had forgotten that they also had an enorm advantage in the desert war.

[@barfuss2007]

in addition the many loot vehicles of many armies... french, polish, dutch, british, russian and so on...

[@SIG442]

I don't want to help you out of your dream, but someone has to. Almost all major parties during the war had that issue, Germany, America, England, Russia and even Japan to some degree.

[@RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv]

These Half-tracks did a great job,after the war. I saw these until the early 70s doing all kinds of jobs.

[@terrystephens1102]

Great episode - many of these vehicles never seen before 👌👌👏👏👏

[@pathdaly]

I've see most of this before, so for me, the most interesting thing was the sight of a Kfz 13 Adler (at 10:27) in presumably 1945!

[@jmantime]

i having some copyright problems , thats why i keep re-uploading this video.

[@herrfriedrich6563]

+jmantime if you search of great music to use in your videos the götterdämmerung from wagner is great ! Wagner is a good choice in general :D ... there is an old german saying that if you hear too much wagner you will go insanse because the music he made is so powerfull.

[@herrfriedrich6563]

+jmantime i can suggest especialy the Nibelungenring

[@shingoshoji9970]

+jmantime i really like your videos and think there interesting but can you make a video about english jets of ww2? and maybe an updated version of japanese jets

[@jmantime]

warthunderplayer 48 ok

[@shingoshoji9970]

Thanks

[@johnchandrav.1823]

I have subscribed..thank you for the uploads! 👌

[@m10bob22]

Excellent post and love your soundtrack as well..Please keep posting other nice vids...

[@jasonsmith1143]

always love German Halftracks especially WW2 once

[@JimEwing516]

Interesting, in the last picture at 17:07, the halftracks look like they have launchers like Katyushas -- rails instead of tubes.

[@stephenfowlie742]

Using rails meant they could use inferior munitions and rockets that would otherwise have been rejected. The Russians used them instead of tubes for the Katyushas mainly for this reason, although they were more inaccurate due to lack of spin a tube would have provided.

[@herosstratos]

See Panzerwerfer Somua: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOMUA_MCG?wprov=sfla1

[@nateweter4012]

Nice video but the halftrack pictured at 4:44 is the Selbstfahrlafette für 7.5cm pak 40 auf Somua MCG S307(f) not the prototype AT halftrack based on the Sd Kfz 6

[@williamkoppos7039]

Nice show. Great music. Love the 250.

[@rubenskiii]

The suspension of the Bremer Wagens looks very simmilair to that of the Carden Loyd Tankettes.

[@jmantime]

+Ruben de Jong wouldn't be surprised if the British copied them

[@rubenskiii]

yes, copy paste is seen everywhere and everytime in militairy history :)

[@martinmaier352]

The halftrack at 4:24 has nothing to do with the halftrack on the following clip at 4:37, which in my mind is a kind of a french halftrack, adapted for the Wehrmacht.

[@jmantime]

i should make more video's on homemade / improvised weapons

[@pdalko]

+jmantime Yes!!!

[@kfk3000]

+jmantime Please.

[@emilykovairik5311]

+jmantime YES YES YES .....PLEASE DO THAT !!!!!

[@jorgschimmer8213]

Hey. I really like your Videos, but please let me or another german let you help with a good translation of the written german.

[@DeanmC261993]

+jmantime Do you think you could ever do video at some point in the future on the very different and very numerous firearms whether experimental or not that the czechs developed. You have give the czechs credit for a having a very sophisticated and independent military industry considering they weren't really a big time player in europe. They were still coming out with tons of indigenous new tank designs even after joining the warsaw pact.

[@rgd963]

wow where did you find these Photographs.

[@sergiocv1467]

Umm, are you sure that at 4:42 they are the same vehicle? The hull is very similar, but the one of the video seems that does not hace turret, and the gun is clerly not a 37 mm gun, seems more like a Pak 40 75mm

[@jmantime]

+Sergio Cv your right, i was suppose to put that in the Sd.Kfz.251 variant slot , damnit - thanks for spotting that

[@rubenskiii]

+Sergio Cv i saw it to, isn't a german halftrack btw, the suspension is different ( no big wheels) French? or Polish?

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Yes, it's a French conversion.

[@hunterventures2101]

Every time i have heard this music i think 'Halftracks' . I now know why.

[@cormacsheedy3522]

Were any german have tracks used in civilian use after the war ? Ie construction and ad hoc roles ? I know the the smaller motorcycle style the luftwaffe used was used by foresters . But the large ones ?

[@brianjonboeckler2813]

Frame 16:18, If I see this right, this is a shortened rear end of a Panther, welded to the front of a half-track. Please comment.

[@fredboat]

Enjoyed the video/music, Thanks. Later from Texas. usa.

[@luisquezada9469]

Very good compilation

[@MrLegolasegal]

Nice Video

[@pierredecine1936]

You would think someone who knows how to make video's would also know how to control audio levels in said video ...

[@imdeplorable2241]

Good video. Thanks.

[@sjieksaluschenko8963]

Gracias, hay muchos vehículos q nunca había visto

[@jonathanironhart8298]

Hay so i just got a matchlock pistol and was wondering when the musket and matchlock video will be coming out.

[@jmantime]

+john ranger still trying tyo gather all of the photo's and information - so far i'have most of the information on muskets and matchlock rifles from the American Revolution, the Boshin War and even rare korean matchlocks from the 17th & 18th centuries

[@jonathanironhart8298]

jmantime ok cool if you need help just ask.

[@dansutherland6815]

The song makes me cry

[@Sturmpionier]

I'm suprised I didn't see the sdkfz 251/16 "Flammpanzerwagen" or /17 2cm Flakwagen

[@larryfontenot9018]

The vehicles in the early part of this video aren't half tracks. They are fully tracked trucks although the tracks are divided. The dictionary definition of a half track is a civilian or military vehicle that has wheels at the front for steering and tracks at the rear for propulsion and support. If this is a history of half tracks, then those vehicles probably shouldn't be in it -- they deserve a classification of their own. The first half track doesn't appear until 2:03.

[@stevensonDonnie]

Larry Fontenot not true, a couple were towing artillery in WW 1

[@SIG442]

Still missing many half tracks, but pretty ok video

[@rburns531]

Well done sir! Thank You!

[@jaab-zh7vr]

Samson tank

[@bladerunnerNWO]

what was the purpose of a half track and why they do not make them anymore?

[@snoop05]

Infantry based transportation mainly, it was used to mobilize 10 soliders. The reason we don't use them anymore is because we have more better ways of transporting larger amounts of troops to the battlefield, like aircraft and APC's.

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

Wow. 57 flavors and lousy mass production. They'd have been better off just building a million of one good model of deuce and a half like we did. They look cool tho!

[@dandtfarms3365]

They did the same thing with there tanks too

[@MrUnicorn15]

I don't really think the option of an american style mass production was viable at any point. Fuel was a giant problem in germay as it was. Having a ton of eh good enough vehicles like the sherman rolling around would not work in germany. Thus you have to thrive for top quality in whatever role the vehicle is ment for to hope to offset the numerical disadvantage somewhat.

[@hull294]

It may seem a stupid question but what are the advantages/disadvantages of having wheels at the front & tracks at the back ?...I've watched quite a few of these vid's on half tracks & can't get an answer to this basic question ? They all seem to just show you the different types.........half track porn !!!!!.If anyone knows a good video which answers this question I'd be grateful.

[@Hello-hl4kq]

Googling it was not an option?

[@saint_ruth1691]

Here's what you want: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH7GmqmQhdmhedk :)

[@markcantemail8018]

loveday , basic answer . Cost , the extra weight and complexity of steering with the tracks . The front wheels for attempt at steering allows you not to have costly and complex track break steering on the back like a tank would have . Look how light a snowmobile is ? Making a half track or a tank heavier adds wear and tear on the parts ? Your question is a very good one . I hope this vague answer helps to put you on the right track ?

[@Obamaistoast2012]

Tracks float over soft ground better than wheels.

[@Jan_372]

To get over obstacles better, since things solved the problem about heavy transport trucks (also because these were "simple" flat tracks) at the time, steering was done with Front wheels and at a certain degree also the track brake would be used. @Mark Cant Email this system didn't put as much stress on the ground and it was like a normal truck in terms of parts being damaged, just that this truck's a bit heavier and has tracks.

[@scottybeegood]

NICELY DONE!

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!!!

[@trygd100]

Most of them from we 1 are not half tracks. They are fully tracked

[@worldwar_history_narrator7451]

The sd kfz 9 ton would be so beast to own

[@peterzebot1795]

It would be my Winter car. Minus the 3.7cm Flak. I wouldn't need that.... yet

[@ninabonita2355]

Este semioruga hasta el dia de hoy podria seguir funcionando y no x paseo si no como arma y seria de extraordinario rendimiento

[@ToRaHUN]

Soveit half track please

[@garvinhooper]

logistics must have been a nightmare for the German army with so many different types and different manufacturers they should have stuck with a good design and built many same way with all their war material too many types and variants from so many different sources with not much standardized

[@MrUnicorn15]

@ Production quantity doesn't do you much good. All it means is you have to fuel up double the amount of vehicles and fuel was already in short supply.

@@MrUnicorn15 What you say is the truth, they absolutely lost because of fuel. But it's also irrelevant to the discussion. Critical battles where the fuel *was* there would have come out entirely differently with 78% AFV availability and 87% secondary vehicle capacity (trucks, prime movers, motorized infantry) instead of the 28% AFV availability and 52% secondary availability they actually had. That comes down to parts availability, concentration of effort in perfecting designs leading to lower maintenance effort and greater availability, and finally overall quality increases in the designs they did have. That could have been a war winner in and of itself. They absolutely lost the war due to fuel, but they also lost from a failure to consolidate and maintain decent practices when they counted the most. What you're saying is basically changing the subject: at worst you're irrelevant and at best you're a change of focus. Having a fighter better than the Spitfire absolutely would have helped.

@@MrUnicorn15 By the way, you also didn't understand what was being said: not just the numbers of vehicles, but the overall availability of the right kinds of vehicles when they mattered were just as critical. Consolidation made better use of the fuel they DID have and made better use of everything when it mattered.

[@MrUnicorn15]

@ When it comes to half tracks I somewhat understand what you are talking about but as far as tanks go I dont really see that point and even different half track designs seem important. Heavy half track versions were used for maintanance of tanks as for example you could strap cranes to their backs and they were able to fill that role nicely. Heavy 18t half tracks could also pull heavy artillery pieces. As these roles needed to be filled you'd have to build mainly a heavy half track and a lighter combat-capable half track. Building them so big they could fit any role seems like a giant waste of material to me and also means that as you would have to settle for a heavier version it would use way more fuel than its lighter counterparts. Filling the role of the Sd.Kfz. 10 or the Sd.Kfz. 6 with a heavier vehicle seems to me as it would take up way more fuel as just building 11 weigh specific vehicles.

@@MrUnicorn15 So you're saying you don't understand the difference between 22% Panther availability at Kursk versus 90%? I don't know what to say to you, the logic is right there. As for the half-track, you seem to be gloriously missing the point. The point wasn't to have a one-size-fits-all, it was so they didn't have 287 different types of wheeled reconnaissance vehicles with an average of 0% parts commonality. They really had that in Barbarossa, 287 types. That's just the wheeled versions, we're not even talking the half-tracks. That means 287 different production lines with 287 different sets of needs even before you reach the battlefield. You can have all your recon needs met with all the specialist vehicles you want with just 25 or 40 versions of wheeled recon vehicles: it's when you have another two HUNDRED types you run into massive logistical problems. Part of this was unavoidable: using French, Czech, Dutch designs. But most of their problem was the German philosophy of a thousand competing types. Their problem was they didn't shut down the worst types and concentrate on the best vehicles, tanks, guns and everything else when they found out how good they were, they just kept producing the not-as-good types in slightly lesser numbers. Instead, they should have shut down the worst production lines and concentrated all their resources in the types they wanted. Consolidation works. In fact, the Germans themselves did this, albeit after they had lost.

[@johncook3125]

Good video

[@jackaubrey8614]

Good video and lots of vehicles I'd never heard of , but, ermmm, lots of those early half-tracks...well, they're not, are they? :)

[@gregormager6697]

beethovens nr 5 synfonie ist perfekt zum video

[@gabrielm.942]

Lol they’re not half tracks. They’re fully tracked apc’s atleast some of them they just have two sets of tracks.

[@halfpipefreak]

very very nice :D

[@AndrewA-zt4fo]

There is only one thing I have to say about the Kettenkrad. GIMME!

[@scottybeegood]

NICELY DONE

[@Statist0815]

Panzerwerfer? A tank thrower ?

[@harmwulf5689]

SEHR GUT DARGESTELLTE ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN HALBKETTENFAHRZEUGE!

[@FUGYOO]

Moon lite sonata. How quaint.

[@13bravoredleg18]

I was stationed in Giessen, Germany where Hanomags were produced.

[@steffenrosmus1864]

Only few mayority was produced in Hannover (that is what Hannomag (Hannoversche Manschinenfabrik AG) stand for) , Münster and later Bratislava

[@moisesaguirre515]

When you need to build a modern South African G5 with 1940s technology

[@godwrote01]

the world war 1 half tracks look like homemade tanks from Syrian war

[@steffenrosmus1864]

The other way round

[@steffenrosmus1864]

The other way round😂

[@mihaylovgorode2783]

Təşəkkür edirəm

[@shantkevorkian889]

the best technology ever

[@TheSeperatistConfederacy]

First one looks like a Raupenschlepper Ost

[@jiggerdaddy2519]

Auf wieder sehen Europa ,der Freiheit und Brüderlichkeit ,hallo Europa ,Spielball der Hochfinanz.

[@thrashsis5412]

Why Nazi make many many varian of halftrack?

[@jakartagamer6188]

Germans are quite the geniuses aren't they? But i feel like it's unnecessary for troop carriers, but still, very cool

[@petrophaga8523]

it just seems unnecessary until you know the reason. Tracked vehicles are not as easy to drive like a normal truck. Therefore you have to train your drivers. Half tracks do drive/steer like normal trucks and no further training is needed. Every civilian driver was able to drive one of these (after a short instruction).

[@jakartagamer6188]

@@petrophaga8523 but isn't that expensive?

[@napraznicul]

Nice sountrack, but though instead of Kevin MacLeod.. weren't more adequated Wagner?!

[@imperium3926]

Romanian half tracks are not german half tracks

[@สมชายรักธานินทร์]

🇹🇭👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@ElGoogKO]

It's a major mystery to me why the germans made their pre-ww2 era tanks with such a garbage military design. (Aka square boxes) when they had made clearly more advanced vehicles, with smart sloped armor facets ever since the end of ww1. Why in gods name had them use the poor design for their panzers?! Until the Panther which was made as a wake up call after the T34 ruined their troops on the eastern front, they kept pushing the poor format Including the Tiger, which was hailed as a great tank, it was crap. A bigger Panzer 4. Imagine had they used a smart tank design from the start, the alternate universe Tiger would have wrecked left and right and not be humiliated by the IS-2 either

[@peterlinz2733]

Das heißt Fahrzeuge und nicht Fahrzeugen!!!

[@jorgecameras1]

anime dibujar

[@candyextreme8406]

Musical accompaniment was most horrible.

[@chadenfier3671]

Jermans !! What people!!!?