Tankograd Militärfahrzeug
Issue 3/2004

Review by Peter Brown

Contents -

Letters (two pages in German)

Armoured Vehicles of the East German Army part 2 - following on from the first part in issue 2/2004, this part covers the late 1950s or the early years the actual East German Army with details and photos of mostly Soviet equipment such as T-34, T-54, PT-76, BTR-152, SU-76, SU-85, SU-100, recovery vehicles and even the IS-2 plus the German SK1 armoured car. (12 pages)

MAGACH Israeli M48 and M60 series tanks covering the various sub-types but concentrating on the up-armoured variants including some good colour photos (10 pages, plus another full-page photo on the back cover)

Taurus German army truck-mounted stand-off munitions launcher (1 page)

SdKfz 231 eight-wheel armoured car, basic version with lots of good monochrome photos. Note that the radio-equipped versions will be covered later. (12 pages)

"Stubborn Emil" 128mm SP gun, one full-page B&W photo and caption

US Army's 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment OPFOR who act as enemy forces for manoeuvres in Germany. Good colour photos of their visually-modified equipment, HMMWV-based "BRDM", late M60 series "T-80" and various modified M113 series carriers (11 pages)

Borgward B2000 German 0.75 ton truck late 1950s in various forms with different body styles (6 pages, period B&W photos and colour views of a restored truck)

Leopard 2A5 main battle tank, background and good general and close-up colour photos (5 pages)

Newsletter, single page in German only with colour photos

Vehicle rally report in German with various colour photos of post-WW2 subjects (2 pages)

Highly recommended, this series is available from several distributors. For more details contact the publishers Verlag Jochen Vollert on jochenvollert@tankograd.com

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