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Motorgeschütz II Ausf-A

This is my first realistic tank, it is 3:1 scale. As you would no doubt note, it is inspired by Inter-war Japanese tanks, combined with the early German Panzers, along side a French style main turret, and a British style machinegun turret. It is intentionally flawed, as i will describe, because Austria-Hungary is A: Probably not that experienced in terms of tanks. B: Has a history with severely underfunding military projects, which results in usually subpar results, C: In the inter-war period when developing this tank, where these very flaws were also commonplace around the world. She is roughly 50% mimics, but is still somewhat functional, and can kill the sidewinder (Very effective), but not much else.

The Motorgeschütz II Ausf-A was an Austro-Hungarian medium tank of the Interwar period. It was the product of a long and painful underfunded development period, and as such exhibited many faults and flaws caused by archaic features, and cost cutting measures.

It was designed to both serve as infantry support and to bypass the main enemy lines to engage the enemy lines of communications and tanks. This was to be achieved through both the use of a 3.7cm QF gun with a coaxial 0.6cm machine gun in the main turret, and a heavy 0.8cm machine gun turret in the bow.
The designed purpose of the machinegun turret was to provide a much larger firing arc than a hull mount, allowing for more total suppression of enemy machine gun and infantry positions. While the 3.7cm QF gun can fire both HE and HEAP shells for infantry support and anti-tank respectively.

However, as they would soon find out, the machine gun turret simply provided a weak point in the frontal armour, while not providing any meaningful benefit in actuality, and the main gun was too high velocity, with too low depression to be used effectively for infantry support, yet too low velocity to be used effectively for anti-tank purposes for anything with more than 18mm of armour. These issues were compounded by the cramped nature of both the two man main turret, and the tiny one man machine gun turret.

Type:
Medium tank

Place of origin:
Austria-Hungary

Used by:
Austria-Hungary
Kingdom of Romania
Greece
Turkey

Production history:
Designer:
Austro-Daimler
Designed:
1934–1936
Manufacturer:
Austro-Daimler

Specifications:

Mass:
15.2 tonnes (16.8 tons)

Length:
5.67 m (18.6 ft )

Width:
2.33 m (7.6 ft)

Height:
2.18 m (7.2 ft)

Crew:
4: (commander, gunner, driver, MG gunner)

Armour:
Ausf-A: 8-17 mm

Main
armament:
1 × 3.7 cm QF Ausf-A

Secondary
armament:
1 x 0.6cm Leichtes Maschinengewehr 32
1 x 0.8cm Schweres Maschinengewehr 33

Engine:
6-cylinder Austro-Daimler SM-180C
(190 hp, 141.7 kW)

Power/weight:
11.8 hp (8.8 kW) / tonne

Suspension:
Bell Crank

Operational:
range
200 km (124.3 mi)

Speed:
Road: 42.2 km/h (26.2 mph)
Off-road: 21 km/h (13 mph)

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