Landwasserschlepper
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Landwasserschlepper (LWS) was an unarmed amphibious tractor produced in Germany during World War II.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Landwasserschlepper
- Weapon.image
- Landwasserschlepper in North Africa 1942.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.type
- Tracked amphibious tractor
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.weight
- 13 t
- Weapon.armour
- none
- Weapon.speed
- 35 km/h (21 mph) road 12 km/h (7½ mph) water
- Weapon.engine
- Maybach HL120, V12, petrol, 11,867 cc (724in3)
- Weapon.engine_power
- 300 hp (224 kW) at 3,000 rpm
- Weapon.pw_ratio
- 8.8 hp/t
- Weapon.crew
- 2 plus 20 passengers
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- amphibious vehicle
- Image
- Landwasserschlepper in North Africa 1942.jpg
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- Commons category
- Landwasserschlepper
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Origins and development
- Operational history
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Landwasserschlepper (LWS) was an unarmed amphibious tractor produced in Germany during World War II.
==Origins and development== Ordered by the Heereswaffenamt in 1935 for use by German Army engineers, the Landwasserschlepper (or LWS) was intended as a lightweight river tug with some capacity to operate on land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Landwasserschlepper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.