Sdkfz 251 and 250

[yangtze]

Does anyone have total production figures and dates of service for these two halftracks and their variants? Or know where I could find them at minimal cost?

[Tanker Mike]

Does anyone have total production figures and dates of service for these two halftracks and their variants? Or know where I could find them at minimal cost?

The website below lists variants but I am not really sure how accurate it is.

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Pit/ ... /index.htm

The most update books are available at this website. Pricy but well worth the money IMHO.

http://panzertracts1.tripod.com/

MIke

[nebelwerferXXX]

Production figures:
15,000 3-ton half-tracks...Sdkfz 251
7,250 1-ton half-tracks...Sdkfz 250

[nebelwerferXXX]

'FIRETEAM'
The success of the Sd Kfz 251 in the APC role led the army to demand a similar vehicle for its reconnaissance units in 1939. The troop carrying requirement was reduced to half a squad (HALBEGRUPPE), or a 'fireteam' in modern parlance. The basis for the new vehicle was the Sd Kfz 10 1-ton prime mover; Bussing-NAG were responsible for the armoured body while Demag built the chassis. Hitler's 'stop-start' approach to industrial management imposed delays on all military production in 1940 so it was not until the summer of 1941 that the first of these new APCs appeared. designated Sd Kfz 250, some 4,250 were built before manufacture ceased in October 1943. They were the mainstay of the panzer divisions' reconnaissance units and appeared in almost as many variants as the Sd Kfz 251; ammunition carriers, command vehicles, fire support vehicles and mortar carriers were all built.
Dissatisfaction with the Sd Kfz 222 four-wheeled armoured car's performance in Russia led to the experimental fitting of the 222's 20 mm gun turret to a number of Sd Kfz 250s in March 1942. This hybrid proved very successful and the Sd Kfz 250/9 entered mass production to replace the Sd Kfz 222.

[nebelwerferXXX]

Production figures:
15,000 3-ton half-tracks...Sdkfz 251
4,250 1-ton half-tracks...Sdkfz 250

Production figures:
4,000...Opel Maultier
3,000...8-ton SdKfz 7
1,000...sWS (Schwere Wehrmachtschlepper)
(600 ordered in August 1944) no more than 60 are believed to have been completed...SdKfz 251/20 'UHU' (Infrarotsscheinwerfer)

[nebelwerferXXX]

For SdKfz 251 production figures only:
348 half-tracks...1940 figure
7,800 half-tracks...1944 figure

[nebelwerferXXX]

For SdKfz 251 production figures only:
348 half-tracks...1940 figure
7,800 half-tracks...1944 figure

Captured half-tracks
The SWS was the final development of the German armoured half-tracks, but in addition to their own vehicles, the conquests of 1939-41 brought them a number of foreign half-tracks which were added to the stock of German built vehicles.
France was the major European builder of half-tracks before the war and the Unic- and Somua-Kegresse were the standard French types. The Somua was the most widely used, and fitting armoured bodies to it produced an APC similar to the SdKfz 251. This vehicle was designated MITTLERER SCHUTZENPANZERWAGEN S 307 (f) and was used as a troop carrier and 105-mm howitzer tractor in some armoured divisions. A further armoured conversion was built in occupied France and consisted of 16 captured French 80-mm mortars mounted on a traversing mount in a twin bank on the rear chassis. Another variant carried a 150-mm PANZERWERFER 42 launcher (mounted as in the SWS), while a 1944 conversion mounted the 75-mm PAK 40.
The Unic-Kegresse half-track was also given an armoured superstructure. Designated LEICHTER SCHUTZENPANZERWAGEN U 304 (f), it was used as a substitute for the SdKfz 250 by German units based in France.

[tigre]

Hello to all ; a little complement.................

Sd.Kfz 250 in Rhodes!

Source: http://www.ebay.de/itm/LE52-Sd-Kfz-251- ... rmvSB=true

Cheers. Raul M .