Manufacture and testing of the Sd.Kfz. 2 "Kettenkrad" half-track motorcycle in 1943

[@Lockbar]

The Kettenkrad was so useful the factory was kept running several years after the war.... good as a farm hauling vehicle.

[@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885]

Its ZÜNDAPP and it run till the 80s.

[@Burninhellscrootoob]

Nope...it was nsu​@@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885

[@martinjohnson9316]

You are coming up with some amazing war footage. I've never seen this before. Thank you!

[@actonman7291]

I want one for Chritsmas.

[@シマチビ]

自分も欲しいです🙋👮🙌バイクと戦車、同時に楽しめる❗️

[@harryhanz1690]

Good ol' Chritmas, the holiday for very bad spellers.

[@actonman7291]

@@harryhanz1690 grammar cop and a spatz lol

[@FroggyFrog9000]

better toy than any iphone

[@dennisyoung4631]

Just what is wanted for a small farm of some kind - what you use for hauling supplies to the barn, say.

[@Фердинанд-ш5у]

Молодцы немцы головастый народ!!! Собственные разработки и собственные возможности ( не крадут, не воруют, ни копируют все своё) !!!

[@olegk8096]

А то

[@IceMan19000]

One of them cost about 150.000 - 180.000 Dollar today

[@Luftwoller]

lol for a pile of rust. try again

[@IceMan19000]

​@@Luftwoller in good condition

[@j.bradleyheck1589]

That's Gelandewagen expensive!

[@janb.2025]

25 years ago you could find them for 9000$ (15-18.000DM) in the weekend newspaper "Reviermarkt". By 1998 I also found an "Enigma" machine for 800DM (400$) and I didn't buy it because I was on my motorcycle. Today, I would throw away the bike and carry the enigma 40km home by hand....

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

What was the sales price in 1943?

[@MiaSeaplaneGuy]

Fantastic post! Seems that you have a nice stash of unique footage , keep it up! Watching the production section i think to myself if only those fellows had a production line in the US ie. Willow run, they would quickly see how over the war was for them, and yet held so long.... Forget showing off in a Himalya Defender, i want to drive chic-fil-a in Ketten!

[@stogmot1]

amazing footage ,thanks

[@redtobertshateshandles]

A heavy duty tow vehicle, I think. They would have some awesome pulling power.

[@martinjohnson9316]

Powered by an 1500cc Opel engine i believe.

[@j.bradleyheck1589]

They used them for towing Me 262's.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

​@@j.bradleyheck1589apparently when the fuel shortage became acute used 🫏 instead. Quite a cool buggy though

[@Martin-v2x9s]

​@@j.bradleyheck1589Not only for towing ME 262s.They made Service the whole Wartime on the German Airfields👍

[@email4664]

@@martinjohnson9316Aside from the Carb, it is the same engine as used in the later Opel GT

[@acersalman8258]

You science education original God bless you and protect you,,,good motorcycle

[@reverseuniverse2559]

So advanced technology that’s fantastic

[@bertnl530]

Advanced technology was what hurted the German forces a lot. To much parts, to much maintenance, to much tooling, to much hours per product. Also to much different types of vehicles.

[@McRocket]

I really like this little vehicle. Thanks for posting this. ☮

[@edefuchs7085]

Die Dinger sind heute noch hammer-gut

[@softsofasoftsofa]

"Girls Last Tour": an anime of 2 girls using a Kettenkrad to wander a world destroyed by war.

[@r_paleoart]

That's an absolute Masterpiece Anime

[@sheepdip6452]

Note the Kettenkrad race track in the end ... the precursor to modern-day lawnmower races

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

We could do with this vehicle in the UK, judging by the pot holes!

[@61diemai]

Here in Germany, too, our governments do not like to spend taxpayers money on our own native needs anymore.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

True and the rain has led to a woeful state of repair

[@andrewallen9993]

What you need is a T2 VW Kombi, preferably a splittie, it's fun when the arsehole in the MBW or Audi six inches from your back bumper falls into the huge deep pothole your 15" high profile tyres and torsion bar swing arm with rubber bump stop suspension has just laughed at 😂 After all it was designed for use on roads the UK government had been maintaining with Lancaster bombers and the US 8TH.

[@Mal0Imperzia]

@@61diemai same in Italia, but the EU bearaucrats will gladly spend money on random climate acts and immigrants!

[@nw8000]

I have seen these in action they are great!

[@trickydicky2908]

They'd still be useful in farming or ranching applications. It would be popular in Sturgis, lol.

[@leelandlagasse6517]

Exactly what they where used for after the war, recently one was found with a converted hitch and plow

[@MGB-learning]

Great video

[@JRCinKY]

Just an awesome vehicle

[@Orgelfan62]

For this Time was the Kettenkrad a good all Terrain Vehicle

[@212th]

Impressive

[@reynaldolopez8902]

Deberían sacar al mercado estos excelentes vehículos.

[@salamander163]

looks like they are painted dark green or dark grey, but they look awesome!!!

[@omega14239.]

Захоплююсь німецькими технічними засобами часів війни. Шкода, що ми так мало знаємо про творців цих технічних див.

[@j.bradleyheck1589]

A lot of the technicians went to Gulags & most were swept up by "Operation Paperclip" ,e.g. Werner von Braun !

[@wolframherzog636]

Kettenkrad wurde bei NSU Werken in Neckarsulm gebaut, heute ist es eine Fabrik von Audi. Die letzten originalen NSU 1:45 Hallen wurden 2007 abgerissen. Google Earth: maps.app.goo.gl/Wyt5rqigqFRfY9dC6?g_st=ic

[@Вася-ч9ш3ю]

Gulags is - Administration.

[@Danila_Korotkov02]

​@@j.bradleyheck1589, the Gulag was created for political reasons. The Germans were used after the war to rebuild houses, factories, etc. Scientists and engineers were involved in the production process

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

What was the sales price in 1943?

[@boathemian7694]

I saw this at a museum in Norway

[@mjlotus]

Very cool.

[@mrvn000]

A superior race makes superior machinery!!

[@alexandre210613]

😀😀😀

[@suhericoba911]

Defeated by chosen race

[@Zedinator593]

That’s the mentality that makes it difficult for people like 👍🏼 that who don’t have the ability for self respect and empathy to understand what is wrong and what’s going to change when people don’t know what’s right in their own way to make it better than others who don’t understand what they don’t have and what they can’t control or what they’re supposed to be capable of

[@Mal0Imperzia]

The amount of failed German tanks and weird prototypes combined with questionable reliability would like to say otherwise.

[@mrvn000]

@@Mal0Imperzia Nein!!

[@derevenskyi_live]

Даже звука тогда не было. Теперь ты такой это телефона смотришь😮

[@greekthenick]

Great video ,i wish it was longer with more stages of the poduction ! I saw and some women in the start of the video and pushing them in the production line at 0:28 - 0:37 !!

[@hamansutra]

Masters of the Universe!

[@jjw2632]

WOW German workers on a production line . Gosh those quality controls levels would have been through the roof back then.

[@carlowingfield7743]

Just what you need to get to work riding over all the other traffic .

[@av8bvma513]

Um, Why is it reversed Left-To-Right? Or is that Right-To-Left???????

[@robertdawson8522]

I knew an old guy back in the early 80s that had a yard full of antique motorcycles as well as a museum named Bergan who traded an old Sportster for one of these.I asked him if he would sell it but the $5,000 price tag was too rich for my blood🙄

[@Burninhellscrootoob]

NSU werke, aktiengesellschaft, Neckarsulm....same plant that made my 2 NSU prinz cars...i had a 1959 and a 1960....although the engines on the kettenkraftrad were Opel olympia engines, the manufacture overall was by NSU

[@stevenhershman2660]

I like the model where it drives like a car but will float on water and is motorized.

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

Is today's ATV better than kettenkrad ?

[@mh53j]

That would be interesting to see. Obviously, each would have its own strengths and weaknesses. I think current use of ATVs in the military is for their speed and maneuverability, the kettenkrad for its cross country (ie. Russian mud) abilities. Both routinely use trailers as well, so not sure what load limits would be for each.

[@rosbifke]

I’d say the comparison is nonsensical since they both perform really well in their respective, different niches. There’s no competition here.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Kettenrad is much more industrial. Can a quad tow a multi ton artillery piece and 300 kg of ammo ?? Can a Kettenrad go where a quad can ??

[@nazarenosilva4478]

The only halftracks advantage is they are cool.

[@martinmiessler5025]

What a Gang 😂 Fantastic Material 👍

[@oxanafedler5599]

Warum werden diese super geilen teile nicht mehr gebaut?🤔

[@porsche911s9]

macht die strassen kaputt. deswegen.

[@oxanafedler5599]

@@porsche911s9 die kriegen Gummis drauf dann geht das ☝️👍

[@jochensch8821]

@@oxanafedler5599 Die haben auch Gummis drauf und man hat sie bis 1948 noch für die Landwirtschaft gebaut. Die Gegend um Neckarsulm ist Weinbaugebiet, in einer Zeit ohne Schmalspurtraktoren waren die im Weinberg eine gute Lösung.

[@Litauen-yg9ut]

I'd love to have one. Be probably the only German war equipment I could afford, except maybe a kubelwagen

[@Tempestzzzz]

I want one.🥰

[@happyhome41]

That testing in the latter half looks like a TOUGH job, but, someone HAS to do it. Most excellent footage. I’m curious, do you ever have a sound track ? It would seem, if any, this film would have had a sound track. Of course, I can make vroom vroom noise while watching.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Fun buggy

[@anadosek]

Ugoku, ugoku...

[@filzlaus9515]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@sweeneytod1]

Why the motorcycle front? Pointless addition to an otherwise solid vehicle.

[@Ba_Yegu]

I think it was for fine tune the steering without bothering the track clutch system. The manual of Kettenkrad stated that if the terrain is really rough with large stones or tree stumps, the front wheel should be removed and then drive the vehicle exactly like a full-blown tracked vehicle.

[@terepember512]

According to an American military study, it would have been better if the front wheel didn't get on it. ​

[@ChupakabraIvanova]

Непонятно зачем ему переднее колесо очевидно что это декоративная функция 🤔

[@adnninadnnin7967]

Лица у рабочих не радостные.. Враг у ворот! Промышленность должна обеспечить фронт всем необходимым! А рабочих-специалистов мобилизуют в армию.

[@AutoMug-p2r]

That looks lit and funny af

[@dukenukem8381]

Whats even the point of the front wheel

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

Change direction. Making turns. Obvious.

[@drott150]

I wondered the same thing. Maybe on dry ground it offers more nuanced steering ability. Or also approaching a near vertical incline it may help roll the front end upward before the tracks make contact? Not sure. But it would have to have a differential steering system on the tracks, so the front wheel isn't the prime mover for steering.

[@NonSektur]

For minor changes in direction. For large ones it engage the tracks. Tank Museum has a very nice video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWO9moifncmLnJosi=JI6T62fVIQCAJ8hj

[@zahfa7608]

The same function with half-track.

[@Dr.MSC.W.Krueger]

Helps to prevent flip over after driving over raised obstacles. You can take it off and the steering works just fine.

[@augustiner3821]

made with the friendly support of GM.

[@dukenukem8381]

Thales help make t-90, mercedes benz helped making kamaz engines

[@riff2072]

And happily destroyed by Boeing.

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

Great machine but why not just build a cheaper side-by-side? That is all the Jeeps were back then.

[@marianklysz1784]

fur Deutschland !

[@Kookamungawerewolf]

I could never see the practicality of them.🤔

[@РусланСоболев-н2е]

Все это уже сгнило на просторах России😂

[@chapiit08]

I'd give a kidney to own one.

[@lostmoose9994]

Just wondering: US invented ATVs ? 😎

[@DougguoD]

1:12 Oh noes, who could withstand such an assault 😼 1:34 I'm kinda missing the carnival music here, though 😞

[@andymckay7803]

It looks dangerous, like it could turn over and pin the riders under it.

[@EU-hj7xe]

Да уж, квадрики это давнишняя тема.

[@parteitagkonstantinthernen5191]

OVER 8000 pices bueld!

[@nord5348]

Покруче квадриков нынешних...

[@Пердоманокль]

эх в Украину б технику такую ,ато в черноземе вязнет современное авно

[@Николай-э9ы7у]

Ночные волки на пакатушках😂😂😂😂

[@akhan9669]

DAS OPEL

[@geoffbenoy2052]

Why don't China start producing these instead of those stupid electric cars!

[@lordvalentine471]

Can you operate one of these if you have a man bun

[@kobusdutoitbosman6240]

Yip ‼️‼️ me too…😳❓🥂 🪖

[@o_tinpo]

かっけー

[@alexeyp9142]

And then they came to Russia....

[@panzplayer2160]

Dlaczego teraz nie robią takich fajnych zabawek? To jest lepsze od Quada.

[@aco4ka]

Perfect for two girls to go on a (last) tour

[@r_paleoart]

A perfect vehicle for exploring a post-apocalyptic world

[@jimlogan2329]

Don’t see much slave labour….funny that.

[@MallimPallim]

ATV

[@АлексейБогачев-у6х]

Нихера не понимаю зачем ему руль с колесом?) , чтоб грязью забивалось?, и думал, что управляет мотом?

[@MuhammadIrfan-fm1yw]

Bravo Germans

[@ihorkorotchenko9732]

+

[@alexandertach8076]

Квадратишь практишь гут

[@kobusdutoitbosman6240]

Yip ‼️‼️ me too…😳❓🥂 🪖