Wot Newsletter Volume #3
Дата: 04.12.2010 04:00:20
Tariz, on 04 December 2010 - 03:19 AM, said: Epic 
What's that huge Direct TV dish on
the back of the German SPG? So the crews can watch ESPN I'm
assuming? MrVic: Its a Turn table for the ability to dismount the gun and act as a
fixed Artillery piece. (which would make it not a SPG at that
point) Also not something I for see adding due to it being field
artillery, but down the road ya never know.
Quote In November 1942, Krupp received order to design the vehicle (waffentrager) using Tiger II components, which was to be part of the "Grille" series. It was to be able to mount 170mm Kanone 72 L/50 gun which could deliver a 68 kilogram projectile up to 25500 meters in range or a 210 mm "Mörser" (a howitzer actually) with a maximum range of 16500 meters firing a 111 kg shell. Grille 17 had its armament mounted on the rail platform inside the hull allowing it to be dismounted at any time and used independent of the actual tank itself. The maximum elevation of the main gun was 65o and its azimuth just 5o at right or left. In order to achieve the 360o fully rotation the gun and its turntable had to be placed in the ground which was folded and carried in the back of the vehicle.
MrVic:
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