Rare WW2 Panzerwerfer 42 - Footage.

The 15cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4 / 1 was a rocket launcher on a armoured half-track vehicle developed to provide fire support for infantry.

Production started in 1942 by the Opel company on the basis of a Maultier half track.

It would see it's first action in the Eastern Front in fall of 1943. The vehicle proofed to be less effective then normal artillery, but covered a much larger area and had a had a psychological effect on the enemy.
The vehicle would also see action in Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and even Berlin.

It would be produced from April 1943 to March 1944 along with its associated ammunition vehicle, the Sd.Kfz. 4. In total Opel produced 296 Panzerwerfer 42 and 251 of the ammunition vehicles Sd.Kfz. 4.

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