He219
07-15-2004, 08:33 PM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/6551/6551168.jpg
U.S. Navy men take apart a Nazi German "Goliath", a miniature tank loaded with explosives, during the Allied Normandy landings in France, in June 1944.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1167/egoliath.html
http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/images/TourPictures/14_Goliath_Tanklge.gif
The German "Goliath" (Sd.Kfz. 3 02/303a/303b) wire-controlled light demolition carrier was the first remotely controlled engineer vehicle of its kind. It was used as a mobile, armored explosive platform for pillbox, obstacle, and stronghold destruction. Resembling a squat mini-tank, the Goliath was one meter long, propelled by two automobile starter motors or a 2-cylinder gasoline engine, and held an 85-kg TNT "bunker-buster" charge. An operator controlled and detonated this device through a 400-meter electric cable, which spooled from the rear of a "mother" vehicle or trailer. The Allies first encountered this "secret" weapon at Anzio in early 1944 (and later on the Normandy beaches). Tactically speaking, the midget tank was a failure. At Anzio, most of them bogged down in the sand and were easily picked off by American artillery or dragged away without them detonating.
http://www.strange-mecha.com/german/army/sdkfz302.JPG
:lol:
U.S. Navy men take apart a Nazi German "Goliath", a miniature tank loaded with explosives, during the Allied Normandy landings in France, in June 1944.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1167/egoliath.html
http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/images/TourPictures/14_Goliath_Tanklge.gif
The German "Goliath" (Sd.Kfz. 3 02/303a/303b) wire-controlled light demolition carrier was the first remotely controlled engineer vehicle of its kind. It was used as a mobile, armored explosive platform for pillbox, obstacle, and stronghold destruction. Resembling a squat mini-tank, the Goliath was one meter long, propelled by two automobile starter motors or a 2-cylinder gasoline engine, and held an 85-kg TNT "bunker-buster" charge. An operator controlled and detonated this device through a 400-meter electric cable, which spooled from the rear of a "mother" vehicle or trailer. The Allies first encountered this "secret" weapon at Anzio in early 1944 (and later on the Normandy beaches). Tactically speaking, the midget tank was a failure. At Anzio, most of them bogged down in the sand and were easily picked off by American artillery or dragged away without them detonating.
http://www.strange-mecha.com/german/army/sdkfz302.JPG
:lol: