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The M29 Weasel is a World War II tracked vehicle designed for operation in snow. [1] Built by Studebaker, Weasels were also used in sandy, muddy, and desert terrains, including towing loads over terrain wheeled vehicles could not negotiate as in the U.S. Marine invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Wiesel 1 MK20 (1991) Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Dresden. The vehicle next to it is the Panzerhaubitze 2000.. Depending on the exact configuration, the Wiesel 1's length is about 3.55 metres (11.6 ft), height 1.82 metres (6.0 ft), and width 1.82 metres (6.0 ft).
The Vostok traverse was a 3000 kilometre four-month trip across Antarctica undertaken by ANARE the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 1962. Using two bright red painted 1943 World War II M29 Weasel tracked vehicles and two 1950 D4 Caterpillar Inc. tractors the 6-man expedition left Wilkes Base on the coast for the Russian Vostok Station deep in the Antarctic interior.
M2 half-track car: Reconnaissance vehicle United States: M3 scout car: Armored car United States: M8 Greyhound: Armored car United States: Had a turret-less variant that was named M20 M38 Wolfhound: Armored car United States: M29 Weasel: Tracked vehicle United States: S1 scout car: Armored car Australia: T17E1 Staghound: Armored car United ...
M29 cluster bomb, a World War II era cluster bomb; M29 mortar, an 81 millimeter calibre mortar; M29 Weasel, a United States Army tracked vehicle used in World War II; M29-class monitor, a class of Royal Navy warships; M29 highway (Russia), a road connecting Krasnodar to Chechnya and Dagestan; M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System, a nuclear weapon
United States' Landing Vehicle Tracked – World War II Vehicles, Tanks, and Airplanes at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 August 2013) – WW2 Vehicles; AmTracs of World War II and the Korean War at Amtrac.org; Water Buffalo Can Fight On Land Or Sea, p. 7, at Google Books, June 1944, Popular Mechanics
M76 crossing paddy fields. It was designed and built by Pontiac Motor Division in the late 1940s and intended as a replacement for the M29 Weasel.It entered service with the USMC in the early 1950s and many saw action in the Vietnam War.
List of equipment used in World War II; List of armoured fighting vehicles of World War II; List of prototype World War II combat vehicles; Military equipment of Germany's allies on the Balkan and Russian fronts (1941–45) List of U.S. Signal Corps Vehicles; G-numbers; Hobarts Funnies