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That German vehicle was not developed for _crossing_ minefields -- as the captions point out, it had essentially no cargo space, making it useless as a transport -- but for _clearing_ minefields by driving across them, hence the solid wheels and high ground clearance. The Wehrmacht developed other mine-clearing vehicles, such as the Minenräumer (http://bkpforums.com/phpUpload/2/minenraumer.jpg, the Minenräumpanzer III (http://bkpforums.com/phpUpload/2/minenraumpanzer.jpg), as well as more 'conventional' designs using mine rollers, such as the PzKpfw IV auf MinenRollern (http://bkpforums.com/phpUpload/2/minenraumgerat.jpg); tanks fitted with mine rollers for clearing mine fields continue to be used today.
Nov 2, 2012, 2:23:06 PM
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