40M Nimrod

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40M Nimrod
Hungarian Nimrod anti-aircraft battery, 1940

Hungarian Nimrod anti-aircraft battery, 1940
General properties
crew 6th
length 5.32 m
width 2.30 m
height 2.80 m
Dimensions 10.5 t
Armor and armament
Armor 6–13 mm armor steel
Main armament 1 × 40 mm Flak 36M (license Bofors) with approx. 150 shells
agility
drive Nimrod I: Büssing-NAG L8V / 36TR, 8-cylinder, water-cooled
Nimrod II: Ganz VIII. VGT 107 (license from Büssing-NAG)
114 kW (155 PS)
Top speed 50 km / h
Power / weight 14.8 hp / t
Range 225 km

The 40M Nimrod was an anti-aircraft tank used by the Hungarian Army during World War II .

history

The Hungarians adopted the design of the Swedish Landsverk L-62 Anti II anti-aircraft tank from 1940. It was based on the Landsverk L-60 , which was already being produced in Hungary as the Toldi tank . This model was considered appropriate because it could be used for both anti-aircraft and anti-tank missions. Since it proved to be ineffective against the Soviet T-34 tanks, it was subsequently only used against lightly armored vehicles and for air defense. The Hungarians improved the original L-62 design. The turret armor was strengthened and the turret enlarged to give the four-man crew more room to move. The tower was also changed so that the machine gun had a greater elevation range. He had an R-5 / a radio system. For the first 46 vehicles , called Nimrod I , the engines were supplied from the German Reich , for the last 89 vehicles, Nimrod II , the engines were produced under license in Hungary. The tank was equipped with a 40 mm automatic cannon, which was also a license replica from Bofors . This was located in a rotating tower that was open at the top. The first delivery took place in February 1942. From November 1941 to 1944 about 135 Nimrod tanks were produced. A pioneer and medical vehicle based on Nimrod was also built in small numbers. The Nimrod was used in the fighting in eastern Poland , Austria , Hungary, Transylvania and Czechoslovakia .

literature

  • Peter Mujzer: The Royal Hungarian Army, 1920-1945. Volume II: Hungarian Mobile Forces.
  • Attila Bonhardt, Gyula Sárhidai, László Winkler: A Magyar Királyi Honvédség Fegyverzete. 1992, ISBN 9633271827 .

Web links

Commons : 40M Nimród  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The 40M Nimrod ( Memento from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at akirk / tanks