Birgeria's new PZC units

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The unit production is running at full capacity

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[bondjamesbond]

International Harvester M-5-6, 2.5-ton truck. In the US army, it concentrated in the Marine Corps. This truck also sent to Russia via the Lend Lease.

Tankgrad workers send greetings to your diligence!

https://en.topwar.ru/165370-tankograd-k ... -sssr.html

[Birgeria]

The International Harvester M5 halftrack. It has the almost same external view than the M3 halftracks. But IH used their own engine, which made M5 a bit slower than the M3. The US army only used limited number of this halftrack, but it is abundant in the Red Army and Free French army as armored medium artillery tractors.

[Birgeria]

A US weapon only served in the Red Army. The Su-57 SPAT gun. It is the M3 halftrack mounted with an M1 57mm gun (US version of the 6 Pdr). After producing about 900 of them, they realized that the M10 tank destroyer is way better. So all of them were sent to Russia before Operation Bagration in Summer 1944.

[bondjamesbond]

A US weapon only served in the Red Army. The Su-57 SPAT gun. It is the M3 halftrack mounted with an M1 57mm gun (US version of the 6 Pdr). After producing about 900 of them, they realized that the M10 tank destroyer is way better. So all of them were sent to Russia before Operation Bagration in Summer 1944.

https://dzen.ru/media/kitchenmag/su57-a ... 00aab124d3
Excellent ) Trophy


https://en.topwar.ru/158316-lend-lizovs ... 7-t48.html



http://union.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=1421&p=12#p121478

[Birgeria]

Two more Russian trucks:
the 2.5 ton GMC ACKWX-353;
and the 5 ton YaG-6.

[Birgeria]

The weapon for today is the US army M45 quad .50 inch AA machine gun. The same weapon system in the M16 MGMC.

[bondjamesbond]

The weapon for today is the US army M45 quad .50 inch AA machine gun. The same weapon system in the M16 MGMC.

Excellently

https://en.topwar.ru/174730-amerikanski ... emety.html

[Birgeria]

A tank destroyer from Belgian. The T13-B1. It's 47mm gun is facing backward.

[bondjamesbond]

http://wardrawings.be/WW2/Files/1-Vehic ... a/T-13.htm
https://starcom68.livejournal.com/2670793.html

[Birgeria]

Two motor vehicles from the Austro-Daimler company from Austria. The Austro-Daimler products, on the Wehrmacht.
The 5 ton ADAZ 6x6 truck, used as medium prime mover.
The ADTK light mountain truck. Mostly equipped to the Gebirgsjager units.

[Birgeria]

An uncommon German truck variant. The Henschel 33 artillery version. It looks like adding the cargo body of the Sd.kfz.7 to the Henschel truck. Chinese army also imported a number of this type for towing their 15cm Rheinmetall howitzers, which looks like the sFH-18 but with a longer barrel and longer range (over 15km).
A little more about the Chinese 15 cm howitzers. The Nationalist Government bought 32 pieces of them and equipped in one most modernized motor artillery regiment in Chinses army before the Second Sino-Japanese War. Most of them went through the WWII and the Civil War from 1946-1949. Several pieces even involved in the Korean War. Now about three of these guns distributed in the military museums in China.

[bondjamesbond]

Everything is just fine )Or you can create airships (no, it's not Kirov from C&C Red Alert)))

Soviet Airships in the War: Forgotten Pages of History.
Yes, yes, not tethered barrage balloons, but free-flying airships. In the USSR, not in the USA, I am not confused. During World War II, as many as four airships were used in combat operations by the USSR for various auxiliary purposes.

Four airships took part in supporting the Red Army in combat operations - the USSR V-1, the USSR V-12, the Malysh and the Victory, and the latter three were built at the Doloprudny airship factory (+ another piece of the former factory, but does build airships) in general, during the war - the B-12 (2940 m³) in 1942 (according to other sources - re-assembly of the car in 1939, disassembled in 1940), and "Victory" (5000 m³) and "Malysh" - in 1944. At the same time airships had to solve several different tasks, one of the most important was transportation of hydrogen so to speak "in nature", because hydrogen used in barrage balloons was extremely inconvenient for transportation - it flatly refuses to be liquefied without extreme, and compression does not give significant effect - very heavy cylinders are required - and as a result for launching only one balloon it is necessary to make not one and not two flights by "one and a half truck". Of course, it is possible to produce hydrogen from water by trivial electrolysis - but it's good when there is a power source at hand, and if not? You can't do without gasoline generators...
So: airships carried 194580 cubic meters of hydrogen and 319190 kilograms of various cargoes. During the Second World War, Soviet airships performed more than 1,500 flights. So, in 1943-44 on the airship "USSR B-12" made 969 sorties with a total duration of 1284 hours. In 1945 the airships "USSR B-12" and "Victory" made 216 flights with a total duration of 382 hours. One flight was enough to refuel 3-4 barrage balloons with cargo.
In 1943-1944 the airships did a lot of work delivering hydrogen to numerous points. Well, and on the way airships were solving the problem of transporting small loads, - and, in fact, for free, they need additional ballast for transportation of gas? They do. So they were loaded with whatever they had.

One more interesting submersible built in 1944 is "motorized balloon" Malysh, designed for parachute training of the airborne troops. During the war paratroopers were often thrown from place to place - and the lag in relocating the aerostat completely frustrated all the training plans of the personnel. Not infantry, you can't jump out of a tree.


nacelle of the balloon "Malysh".

Therefore in 1944 on the basis of tethered aerostat was built a motor aerostat obtained by suspending from it a nacelle which was a part of fuselage of aircraft Po-2 with engine and cockpit. The apparatus was successfully tested (test report is enclosed), but was not put into mass production - there was no time for that, the war...
And now about another forgotten Soviet priority: in 1945 a special hot-air unit was organized in the Soviet Union on the Black Sea to search for mines and sunken ships. For that purpose in September 1945 the airship "Pobeda" under the command of captain A. I. Roshchin flew from Moscow to Sevastopol.

On September 26 the airship "Pobeda" took off for its first exploratory flight. The flight lasted 4 hours and 20 minutes. In the very first flight, right at the exit of Sevastopol Bay, the dirigible discovered a mine hiding in a shallow water, although it had previously been repeatedly trawled in the bay. A trawler called by radio from the dirigible fished out the mine, towed it to the open sea, and shot it down there.
A.I. Roshchin recollected: "We conducted a large program of research work and flew several times to search for mines. Storms tore them off the steel cables. Wandering in the sea, they threatened merchant and passenger ships. We found the mines and reported them to the trawl boat commanders, who destroyed them. There were times when we went down over the sea up to 5 meters and talked freely with the commanders of the boats, telling them the location of the mines."

The airship conducted an aerial survey of minefields and participated in experiments to detect submarines. Along the way the airship conducted experiments for detecting schools of fish in the Black Sea.

The airship was in Sevastopol from September 23 till November 2. All in all, the Pobeda airship made 20 flights on the Black Sea, a total of 113 hours. Following the results of the combat work of the Pobeda, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral F.S. Oktyabrsky requested from the Main Headquarters of the Navy two squadrons of airships for his fleet. However, unfortunately, the program was not continued.

But it is necessary to mark the use of the dirigible for search of mines, yes.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Latro]

http://wardrawings.be/WW2/Files/1-Vehic ... a/T-13.htm
https://starcom68.livejournal.com/2670793.html

Those two in the back look like Russian volunteers. Could that be a ROA patch on his left arm?

[bondjamesbond]

http://wardrawings.be/WW2/Files/1-Vehic ... a/T-13.htm
https://starcom68.livejournal.com/2670793.html

Those two in the back look like Russian volunteers. Could that be a ROA patch on his left arm?

Usually Russian collaborators were armed with Soviet equipment )
https://reibert.info/threads/roa-konr-r ... .15/page-4
https://alternathistory.livejournal.com/815275.html

A fragment of an article on this topic:
"At the initiative of the commander of the 2nd German Tank Army, taking advantage of the discontent of the population of the occupied area with the policy of the Soviet government, the Germans created a self-government area - the autonomous district of Lokot (Lokot is a settlement of the Orel region, currently belongs to the Bryansk region). The district included 8 districts of the Orel and Kursk regions with a population of 581 thousand people. The chief burgomaster of the district B.V. Kaminsky had his own armed forces at his disposal - 12 thousand fighters equipped with light and heavy weapons, field artillery, armored vehicles and tanks.
The brigade, numbering about 20 thousand people, at the end of 1942 consisted of an armored division, which was armed with 8 tanks (KB, 2 T-34, 3 BT-7, 2 BT-5), 3 armored vehicles (BA-10, 2 BA-20), 2 tankettes. At the beginning of 1943, the armored division already had 10 tanks (KV - 2, T-34 - 4, BT - 3, T-37 - 1), as well as two tankettes and 10 (?) armored vehicles. Other units of the RON could have armored vehicles, in particular, the fighter company created by order of October 31, 1942, received two BT-7 tanks. Parts of the RON were actively used for anti-partisan struggle, for example, at dawn on May 30, 1942, parts of the Kaminsky Brigade, with the support of German and Hungarian units, conducted a major operation against concentrations of partisans in the areas of the settlements of Altukhovo, Sheshuyevo, Krapivnya, Krasny Plowman. After a two-hour battle, the partisans retreated after suffering heavy losses, some partisan detachments were completely destroyed. The Brigade's losses amounted to 9 people (killed and wounded), as well as two tanks and one armored vehicle. Since March 1943, parts of the brigade have been participating in battles against the Red Army, including in Operation Citadel on the Kursk Bulge.
On August 26, 1943, the brigade, together with its equipment and families, totaling about 30,000 people, was relocated to Belarus. By November 25, the brigade had 5 regiments (the full-time strength of the regiment was 1,260 people) and a guards battalion, 12 tanks (KV, 8 T-34, 3 BT-7), 3 armored vehicles (BA-10) were in service.
In the spring of 1944, in the area between Minsk and Lepel, the Germans undertook a number of major operations against the partisan brigades operating here, in which RON units included in the SS combat group as the "RON assault brigade" successfully operated. By order of G. Himmler, the brigade was incorporated into the SS troops with subsequent deployment to the 29th SS Grenadier Division (Russian No. 1) (29. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "RONA" (russische Nr. 1)).
The brigade participated in the suppression of the uprising that broke out on August 2, 1944 in Warsaw, led by the Polish national movement "Home Army". Considerable forces of the Wehrmacht, SS and police were thrown to suppress the uprising. Kaminsky's brigade was also involved in this operation. The two-battalion consolidated regiment of 1,700 men also included 4 T-34 tanks and SU-76 self-propelled guns. The regiment took an active part in suppressing the uprising, acting with extreme cruelty.
In October 1944, the brigade was disbanded, and at the end of 1944, more than 3 thousand soldiers and officers of the RONA formed the backbone of the 2nd regiment of the 1st Division of the ROA, the creation of which began on November 23, 1944. The entire material part of the RON brigade, including T-34 tanks, was also transferred to the division. Photos of the 1st Division of the ROA also show that the division had at least 3 BA-10 armored vehicles.
According to German official documents, on April 8, 1945, as part of the 1st division of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA), formed by order of November 23, 1944, in German documents designated as 600. Inf.Div. (russ.) in H. Gr. Weichsel there were 9 T-34 tanks requiring repair.
Seeing the end of the war, the reconnaissance detachment of the 1st division of the ROA took part in the Prague uprising on May 6, 1945, opposing the German units. At the same time, several T-34 tanks produced in 1941/1942 and 3 BA-10 armored vehicles were used. On May 11, the 1st division of the ROA in the area of Schlusselburg (Czech Republic) surrendered to the Americans."

Aviation of General A. A. Vlasov ( part 1-3 )
http://airaces.narod.ru/all6/vvs_roa1.htm
http://airaces.narod.ru/all6/vvs_roa2.htm
http://airaces.narod.ru/all6/vvs_roa3.htm


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https://cccp2.mirtesen.ru/blog/43806468 ... respublika


https://en.topwar.ru/68247-bronetehnika ... 45-gg.html
https://shooting-iron.ru/publ/14-1-0-142

[Latro]

Sorry but more commonly Osttruppen would wear German uniforms, albeit without collar Litzen and breast eagle.
Later on substitutes for those were designed.


The arm patch of the RON tanker looks similar to the one in your previous picture but mirrored.

The picture of the Pzr IV’s shows Bulgarians, not Russians

[bondjamesbond]

Sorry but more commonly Osttruppen would wear German uniforms, albeit without collar Litzen and breast eagle.
Later on substitutes for those were designed.


The arm patch of the RON tanker looks similar to the one in your previous picture but mirrored.

The picture of the Pzr IV’s shows Bulgarians, not Russians

I know that there are also "Bulgarian" tanks in the photo!

At the expense of Russian traitors, the birches miss their necks very much)))
https://tartarinskii.livejournal.com/10105.html

Modern morons
https://arctus.livejournal.com/415450.html

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The overall balance of losses of Soviet collaborators in the Second World War
© Source: https://history-forum.ru/viewtopic.php?t=18723


https://radio-rhodesia.livejournal.com/1368767.html


http://opoccuu.com/roa.htm


https://smolbattle.ru/threads/Немецкие- ... ССР.51952/

[cw58]

Hi Birgeria

Your latest contributions are very well done but are hard to find information on. Are you working from resource material that has specifications on these vehicles? Such as speed, travel range or payload capacity? If you have easy access to that kind of info, it would make it much easier to integrate these units into an equipment file. But if you don't have easy access to that info, please don't worry about it. You already do enough hard work creating all of these icons.

Either way, your icons are very detailed, look great and are very much appreciated. Many thanks for sharing your talents with us.

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We’ll probably find those units in the PAK-Mod ?

[phcas]

We’ll probably find those units in the PAK-Mod ?

Yes most of them

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