SDKFZ 251

[Tibor_Szabo]

We need Sonderkraftfahrenzeug 251. No cannon? No problem, there were made such with 75 cannons!

[Der Lachende Mann]

Originally posted by Tibor Szabó - Sergeant:

We need Sonderkraftfahrenzeug 251. No cannon? No problem, there were made such with 75 cannons!

Sd.Kfz. 251/9 - Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5 cm KwK37). Equipped with a 75 mm L/24 low velocity gun, using the same pedestal gun mount employed on the StuG III. Nicknamed "Stummel" ("stump"). In 1944, a revised modular gun mount was introduced to facilitate production that also incorporated a coaxial MG42. This universal gun mount was also used to create the Sd.Kfz. 250/8 variant and the Sd.Kfz.234/3.

Sd.Kfz. 251/10 - Schützenpanzerwagen (3.7 cm PaK). Equipped with a 37 mm Pak 36 anti-tank gun mount. Issued to platoon leaders as a fire support vehicle. Early versions used the whole top half of a pak36 with full gunshield, but later ausf. C & D used a much smaller half-size gunshield so that the vehicle didn't advertise it's firepower, so it looked more like a regular 251/1

Sd.Kfz. 251/17 - Schützenpanzerwagen (2 cm). Anti-aircraft vehicle armed with a 2 cm KwK38 on a pedestal mounting with a small armored turret to protect the gunner. Late war, it was issued as a platoon commander's vehicle to replace the Sd.Kfz. 251/10.

Sd.Kfz. 251/21 - Schützenpanzerwagen (Drilling MG151s). Anti-aircraft and ground support variant equipped with a triple-mount ("Drilling" in German means "triple") of MG151 autocannon; early version being MG151/15 mm cannon, later being MG151/20 mm Luftwaffe cannon, on a Kriegsmarine triple mount. Awesome firepower, especially when organised into platoons of 6 SPW. But with each gun capable of firing 600+ rounds/minute, 3guns = 2000rpm, it could fire off its full load of 3000 rounds in just 90 seconds.

Sd.Kfz. 251/22 - 7.5 cm PaK40 L/46 auf mittlerem Schützenpanzerwagen. Fitted with a 75 mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun. Probably too big a gun for the carriage, overloaded but effective, and the Yugoslav military was still using captured examples into the 1950s.

These would seem quite viable.

[Tibor_Szabo]

Yeah! mainly the Sd.Kfz. 251/22! That´d be awesome to play!

[kamikazi21358]

I vote a separate line, a line that would include:

-All armored cars (including Puma moved to it)

-light tanks (Pz I series, Pz I F, Pz II J, Pz II L)

-all Sd.Kfz 250s

-all Sd.Kfz 251s

-usually captured vehicles end up being premium, but since they were so mass-used and with so many variants, possibly the BREN carriers that were modified by the Germans

-Cold War Light tanks (like the KPz M41, 500 used)

-Marder series

[Santa]

all i have too say is Made IN China

[Tibor_Szabo]

Imagine playing with SdKfz 251 with pak40 on it!

[Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй]

Originally posted by Tibor Szabó - Sergeant:

Imagine playing with SdKfz 251 with pak40 on it!

Sdkfz.251/22

[Stridswombat]

There were 251's with Pak 36's mounted in the front instead of the usual MG34, too.

251/9: Stub 75mm gun https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/SdKfz251-9.jpg/1920px-SdKfz251-9.jpg

259/10: 37mm Pak 36 (KwK 36) https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4628/39294188555_48b28f0a50_b.jpg

251/22: 75mm Pak 40 https://chriswauchop.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/sdkfz251bwweb.jpg

Just take your pick.

[kamikazi21358]

There also is the SdKfz 251/21, a SPAA version with 3 2cm cannons.
https://i.redd.it/t2z5phzd7tr01.jpg
There are so many variants, I believe it goes to 23, and idk if there’s more after that.

[Donatedelk]

Originally posted by kamikazi21358:

I vote a separate line, a line that would include:

-All armored cars (including Puma moved to it)

-light tanks (Pz I series, Pz I F, Pz II J, Pz II L)

-all Sd.Kfz 250s

-all Sd.Kfz 251s

-usually captured vehicles end up being premium, but since they were so mass-used and with so many variants, possibly the BREN carriers that were modified by the Germans

-Cold War Light tanks (like the KPz M41, 500 used)

-Marder series

I strongly second this. An addition of German light tanks and troop transports turned deadly. There’s a lot of potential here, we just need to get Gaijin to realize it.