Historic Armour Demonstration brings you the Kettenkrad - Sd Kfz 2/2 Kleines Kettenkraftrad. The cutest little attack vehicle you can imagine.

Tankfest by World of Tanks - 24.-25.6.2016
The Tank Museum - Bovington, UK
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Kettenkrad - Sd Kfz 2/2 Kleines Kettenkraftrad
A half-track motorcycle
The German commitment to military mechanisation is well illustrated in this highly specialised vehicle. It was designed by NSU in 1939 and was intended to operate with paratroops as a light, airportable tractor for supply trailers or small guns. They were first noted by the Allies during the invasion of Crete in1941.
The Kettenkrad is, in fact, a small tracked vehicle with a pilot wheel rather than a motorcycle and it can actually operate without the front wheel. Turning the handlebars activates steering brakes on the tracks. It is also a very sophisticated machine, with roller bearing, rubber padded tracks; expensive to manufacture and difficult to maintain. It is altogether too complicated for military use.
With the demise of airborne operations Kettenkrads were used as communications vehicles, mostly on the Russian front where wheeled vehicles were severely handicapped. The Kettenkrad is powered by an Opel Olympia engine with a three speed and two ratio transmission.
Our exhibit is believed to be the one photographed in Tunisia in front of our Tiger I (E1951.23) at which time the name 'Baby Kate' was painted on the side. At some time, after this vehicle joined the collection, it seems to have been butchered by the removal of some parts, notably the handrails at the rear, but no explanation of this is recorded.
Precise Name: Kleines Kettenkraftrad
Other Name: SdKfz 2/2, HK 101, Versuchs Kfz 620
This fascinating vehicle looks like the offspring of a union between a large motor cycle and a half-track! It is really a small tracked vehicle that has a front pilot wheel; it can operate quite well without the front wheel. It was designed by NSU in 1939 as a lightweight air-portable tractor for use by Germany’s airborne forces, intended to tow supply trailers and small guns. The configuration is unique, quite unlike anything produced by the other combatants in World War II.

Tankfest 2016 by World of Tanks
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