Images of War [00] The Central Powers on the Russian Front by David Bilton

Author:David Bilton [Bilton, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War I, Campaigns & Battles
ISBN: 9781473834538
Google: D11EBgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Published: 2014-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

A camouflaged heavily-armoured Austro-Hungarian train. In September1914, Captain Schoeber, chief of the 15th Railway Building Division, built an armoured train in Galicia. He covered the engine with 8-12 mm thick boilerplates and strengthened the open wagons with rails and thin iron plates. Machine-guns were placed in loopholes to provide both offensive and defensive capability. Captain Kossowicz, chief of the 5th K.u.K. Railway Building Division, made a second armoured train on the Munkachevo-Stryj line. It consisted of two units that could fight covering each other, with two 80mm cannons that fired headway. This train was so successful that the HQ of the Monarchy (AOK) immediately ordered new trains. On the dissolution of the empire, the trains were taken by Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia and were still in use in the Second World War.

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