an early version of the Daimler-Benz hull with a perpendicular front mask and raised hatches, but fitted with a serial tower, and even such combinations were evidently put into service,
Great autumn exercise in 1936 group command 2 (V. and IX.Armeekorps), armored scout car (Sd.Kfz. 13) and armored radio car (Sd.Kfz. 232) in the event of a gas alarm
A Kfz.13, which entered service with armoured car companies in 1933, built on a strengthened car chassis and armed with an MG 13. And a Sd.Kfz.232 (6 Rad), armed with a 2cm cannon and an MG 13, across a pontoon bridge during an exercise in the mid-1930s.
April 1938, the Brandenburg Gate as a backdrop, An Aufklärungs-Kompanie (motorized reconnaissance company) parades in Berlin. Sd.Kfz.232 (6 Rad) radio car vehicles are painted in a pre-war camouflage scheme: dark brown stripes over dark grey.
Invasion of the Sudetenland. The German armored vehicles are ready to march into the Sudetenland immediately on the border of the Reich. German armored cars standing by the Reich frontier waiting to enter the Sudeten. Schirnding. Sudetenland - 3 Oct. 1938
Invasion of the Sudetenland. The armored vehicles ahead, German troops cross the customs border of the Czech state at 8:00 a.m. - Schirnding. Sudetenland - 3 Oct. 1938 8:00 a.m.
Invasion of the Sudetenland. Spähtruppführer puts 2.Pz.Spähwagen on the bridge and puts barbed wire between the Czech bridge barriers. - Aussig, Sudetenland - 9 Oct. 1938
The Panzerspähwagen (6 Rad) was the first heavy armoured car in service with German reconnaissance units, . This Sd.Kfz.232(Fu) fitted with long-range radio equipment, as indicated by the frame- type antenna.
Version Sdkfz 231 intended for radio communication. The car had the same equipment as the 231 model, but in addition it had a 100W radio station and a handrail antenna for further range of the radio.
At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, the German army needed a fast reconnaissance car.
The Sdkfz 232 was designed in 1929 based on the Daimler-Benz truck chassis, which won the chassis competition at Magirus and Bussig Nag. The body was designed by Deutschen-Werke AG. It was built of armor plates with a thickness of 8mm to 14.5mm. The car was armed with a MG-13 machine gun mounted in a rotating turret, later it was replaced by MG-34. The final version received a 2 cm KwK 30 cannon. The Sdkfz 232 was powered by a Daimler-Benz M09 engine, which allowed it to reach speeds of up to 65 km per hour. The crew was 4 people. The car had two steering positions - on the front of the vehicle and at the rear.
Cars 231 and 232 were popular vehicles at all types of military parades in the Third Reich before the outbreak of wa
