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M3 Scout Car


The white scout car is one of the most famous wheeled armored vehicles of the US Army. The shape and size of the hull suggest that it is a vehicle related to the M2 to M21 series of Half Tracks. The Scout Car was manufactured by the same company, White, and was equipped with the same engines, White 160AX and Hercules JXD, as the Half Tracks. According to some sources about 21,000 units were produced between 1941 and 1944, according to others only about 16,500 units were produced.



TTD:
Weight: 4.5 - 6 t depending on type
Dimensions: 5620x2040x2200mm
Armouring: 6.4 - 12.7 mm
Speed: on the road up to 90 km/h
Range: 400 km
Consumption: approx. 33l/100km


A special feature of these vehicles (and some versions of Halftracks) is the suspension roller on the front of the hull, which was supposedly designed to make it easier to cross sand dunes.
The vast majority of these armoured vehicles were used by the US Army, but a significant number also served in the British and Canadian armies. More than 3,000 were delivered to the Red Army under the Loan and Lease Agreement. There are known pictures of "Scouts" from Prague in May 1945. They were also used by the Polish Army formed in the USSR.
Probably 24 units were also in the armament of the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade. They were used by armourers, mechanics, paramedics and doctors.
A photo of one of them, by Mr. Vilém Fencl, is at: /topic/view/31480/


In the period after 1945, Scout Cary M2 -M3A1 was bought by armies of other countries, for example Australia,Belgium,France, Italy, Canada. But they were also in the armament of the armies of Chile, Laos, Mexico, Peru,Turkey. The Israeli army used a larger number of its own Scout Car conversions.


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One specimen can be seen in the Military Technical Museum in Lesany near Týnec.
I am attaching photos of other surviving machines:
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Přidávám několik snímků pořízených ve Vojenském technickém muzeu v Lešanech.
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The vehicle was used in many different roles - from a vehicle for collecting and transporting the wounded (armoured ambulance) to a vehicle with a body for "psyops" (with radio equipment and huge speakers) or a vehicle for targeting artillery firing positions of the enemy from the measurement of the flight path and impact of their shells (so-called Sonic Scout).
Period photographs show that the open battlespace from above was perceived by the Scout crews as probably the biggest drawback (the canvas just can't handle everything). This in practice led to various modifications and "housing" of the vehicles...
The attached picture shows a "Scout" modified as a command post with a superstructure, allowing the crew to "work comfortably standing up".
For clarification, the vaguely legible markings on the rear of the vehicle probably indicate that it is a vehicle used by the British just after the war somewhere in the Middle East...
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photo Cihelna 2007, 18.8.2007
M3 Scout Car - zdroj: vlastní archív

zdroj: vlastní archív
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foto z Cihelny 2007, konkrétně ze spanilé jízdy historické techniky den před hlavní ukázkou.
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vlastní foto 05
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Veliteľstvo tulle "Oceľ" / Number : 1957/the Taj.tulle.cars. 1945 / 3.may day 1946

Vec : Motor vozidlá in jednotiek "Oceľ"-pridelenie, nariadenie

Dňom 1. maya 1946 prideľujem individual útvarom and sub-groups veliteľstva "Oceľ" motor vozidlá as follows :

2./ "Philip" :
c./ 3.the company "Filip" :
tra.cars."Scout-Car"

reg. no. F 195444
reg. no. F 195455
reg. no. F 195456
reg. no. F 197052,
reg. no. F 198055,
reg. no. F 198149.

Source : Archive of the military history institute in Bratislava.
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Je niekto schopný posúdiť či priložené snímky odpovedajú téme? Teda že ide skutočne o verziu M3....


Čo som vedel som už presunul, problémom zostávajú snímky v prvom príspevku (a asi aj v druhom, ak ide o rovnaké vozidlo z Lešian), ktoré sú podľa štítku tiež z verzie M3A1 (doriešiť neskôr po vytvorení tabuľky).
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