List of German Tanks by type; includes both past and present vehicles
This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles, from their inception from the German Empire , through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany , to the split between West Germany and East Germany , through their reunification and into modern-day Germany .
Tank destroyers/assault guns[ edit ]
Anti-aircraft and artillery [ edit ]
Armored personnel carriers, infantry, and fighting vehicles[ edit ]
Utility vehicles/armored cars[ edit ]
Opel Blitz , truck
ADGZ
Trippel SG6
Borgward B 3000 , truck
Krupp Protze , artilery trailer/utility truck
Mercedes-Benz L3000 , truck
Radschlepper Ost
Raupenschlepper Ost
M42 Truppenfahrrad , bicycle
Zündapp KS 750 , motorcycle
BMW R12 and R17 , motorcycles
BMW R75 , motorcycle
Sd.Kfz. 2 'Kettengrad' , light half-tracked gun tractor
Maultier/Sd.Kfz. 3 , half-track
Sd.Kfz. 4 - Half-track/Multiple rocket launcher [ 29] [better source needed ]
Sd.Kfz. 5 (3-ton 6x6 truck)
Sd.Kfz. 6 - Half-track
Sd.Kfz. 7 - Half-tracked artillery tractor
Sd.Kfz. 8 - Heavy half-track
Sd.Kfz. 9 - Heavy half-track
Sd.Kfz. 10 - Light half-track
Sd.Kfz. 11 - Light half-track
Kfz 13
Bergepanther , armoured recovery vehicle
Leichter Panzerspähwagen , armored car
Schwerer Panzerspähwagen , armored car
Sd.Kfz. 234
Sd.Kfz. 247 - Armored car
Sd.Kfz. 250 - Half-track APC
Sd.Kfz. 251 - Half-track APC
Sd.Kfz. 252 - Half-track
Sd.Kfz. 253 - Armored Half-track
Sd.Kfz. 254 - Tracked/wheeled armoured scout car
Sd.Kfz. 265 Panzerbefehlswagen , command vehicle based on the Panzer I chassis
Sd.Kfz. 300 [de ]
Tatra 111 , heavy truck
Raupenschlepper Ost
Borgward IV , demolition vehicle
Goliath tracked mine , demolition vehicle
Springer , demolition vehicle
Volkswagen Kommandeurswagen , military derivate of the Volkswagen Beetle for transporting high-ranking officers
Volkswagen Kübelwagen , light utility vehicle (LUV)
Volkswagen Schwimmwagen , amphibious LUV
Landwasserschlepper , tracked amphioxus trailer
Meillerwagen , V-2 rocket trailer
PTS (vehicle) , PTS-M (East Germany)[ 30]
Sonder Kfz-1
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