GERMAN HORCH Kfz.15 "Mittlerer Einheits-Pkw Horch Kfz.15"
The Kfz.15 Horch was designed as a highly mobile command and control vehicle to support the early strategies of the German Army revolving around the 'Blitzkrieg' concept. If armored forces were to move across the battlefield at high speeds (relatively speaking), then commanders needed to keep up with their forces and communications was essential.
The Horch was a four-wheel drive vehicle powered by a 80 horsepower V8 engine. It featured a pair of spare wheels mounted on free-wheeling axles that helped to keep the Horch from getting hung up on obstacles.
Approximately 12,000 of these vehicles were produced between 1937 and 1943. While these vehicles carried communications gear and served as a high-speed shuttle between forward and rear units, commanders also kept one for their own mobility around the battlefield. The Horch was used on all fronts from Russia to North Africa and required little or no adaptation to operate in those significantly different environments.
Drie uitvoeringen mogelijk;
- Staff's or Commander's vehicle of the HQ of 220th Armored Reconnaissance Detachment, 164th Light Africa Division, North Africa 1942.
- Staff car of HQ, Genaral van Kleist's 1st panzer-Gruppe, Russia 1941.
- 5th battery, 10th Artillery Regiment Division (Mot.), General Guderian's 2nd Panzer Armee, Russia october 1941.
