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"Elements of War" in German Tank Museum, Iron path He that seeks peace, speak of war - quote of German author Walter Benjamin at the entrance. The German Tank Museum (German: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster (DPM)) [1] is an armoured fighting vehicle museum in Munster, Germany, [Note 1] the location of the Munster Training Area camp. Its main aim ...
The gun was the primary armament of the Czech LT vz. 38 light tank, known in German service as the Panzer 38(t). The primary user of the A7 was the Wehrmacht during World War II where the weapon went by the name 3.7 cm Kampfwagenkanone 38(t) .
German Tank Museum, (Deutsches Panzermuseum) – Germany's largest armoured fighting vehicle museum; St. Urban's Church (St.-Urbani-Kirche) – a 13th-century church; The Ollershof is a free open-air museum; St Martin's Church, Munster is an old sheep pen that was converted to a church; Town library
Although the Panzer I was initially able to knock out the T-26 at close range—150 meters (165 yd) or less—using an armor-piercing 7.92 mm bullet, the Republican tanks began to engage at ranges where they were immune to the machine guns of the Panzer I. [47] The Panzer I was upgraded in order to increase its lethality.
The Munster Training Area (German: Truppenübungsplatz Munster) is a military training area in Germany on the Lüneburg Heath. It comprises two separate areas with different purposes: Munster North ( Munster-Nord ) (size: 102 square kilometres (39 sq mi)) and Munster South ( Munster-Süd ) (size: 74 square kilometres (29 sq mi)).
Leopard 1A4 at the German Panzer Museum Munster. The vehicle is displayed with a deep fording snorkel, which would be used to draw in combustion air for the operation of the engine while submerged in water. The Leopard 1A4 formed the sixth batch of 250 vehicles (215 manufactured by Krauss-Maffei and 35 from MaK), starting delivery in 1974.
It is one of Germany's important technical military exhibitions, with about 30,000 objects on an exhibition area of around 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft). It is known as one of the most extensive collections of its kind internationally. The main focus of the museum is on defense technology and the military science library.
Surviving examples of the Borgward IV are displayed in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, [3] the Kubinka Tank Museum, [4] the American Heritage Museum in Greater Boston, USA, and the German Tank Museum in Munster. A fifth one in working condition is displayed in the Overlord Museum in Colleville-sur-Mer (Normandy-France).