Thursday, May 20, 2010

AFV Modeller 2010 05-06


You can find in literature on Armoured Warfare designs that existed on the drawing board, or existed only as prototypes, never being put into production. We also find models that were real, but shrouded in a fog of mystery and sometimes contradictory, or vague data and this is the case with the interesting Minenraumer, mine clearer. We turn to the monograph written by Mikhael N. Svirin, Rosagraph Collection No 13, whose research offers comprehensive and definitive information about the history of this vehicle. Some sources already considered it to have operated in the Battle of Kursk, hence a camouflaged example is offered as an option for finishing, others speak of evidence of their subsequent disappearance when the Germans evacuated Belarus. Other authors say it disappeared in Poland. Informed sources revealed to the author that the vehicle was found in August 1950, near a Soviet garrison in East Germany accidentally by an excavator. The conditions under which it was found and the facts are quite plausible as the vehicle appeared to have fallen into a bomb crater upside down with signs that the Germans had tried to destroy it before their retreat.

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