Mig Eater at 12:43, 4 December 2015

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| image=[[File:aasp_3d.gif|300px|Heavy Anti-Aircraft Armored Car S.Sp]]
| type=Armoured Train
| owner=[[Germany]]
| year=1944

| length=6.1 m
| width=2.6 m
| height=2.5 m
| weight=18 t
| speed=40 km/h

| armour=20mm
| wep1=20mm Flakvierling 38
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The Schwerer Schienenpanzer (Heavy Rail Tank) class of armoured train cars were built by Steyer in 1944 for the Deutsche Reichsbahnin. Although designed to operate in a train with up to 20 other S.Sp cars, they were also capable of operating independently. They were mainly deployed to the Balkans to patrol for partisans attempting to sabotage the rail network. This is the Anti-Aircraft variant of the S.Sp design, which was fitted with a 20mm Flakvierling 38.

==See Also==
*[[Heavy Infantry Armored Car S.Sp|Infantry S.Sp]]
*[[Heavy Artillery Armored Car S.Sp|Artillery S.Sp]]

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-The Schwerer Schienenpanzer (Heavy Rail Tank) class of armoured train cars were built by Steyer in 1944 for the Deutsche Reichsbahnin. Although designed to operate in a train with up to 20 other S.Sp cars, they were also capable of operating independently. They were mainly deployed to the Balkans to patrol for partisans attempting to sabotage the rail network. This is the Anti-Aircraft variant of the S.Sp design, which was fitted with a 20mm Flakvierling 38.
+By 1945 the Allied air forces had gained air superiority over Europe, with the loss of air cover it became extremely difficult for Germany to move any troops and supplies without gaining the attention of the Allied air force who where attacking every truck and train they could find. In an attempt to combat this threat a project was started to fit the Schwerer Schienenpanzer with a 20mm Flakvierling 38 Anti-Aircraft gun. No photographs of this variant have been found and it is unknown if any were completed before the end of the war.
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Heavy Anti-Aircraft Armored Car S.Sp - Revision history

Mig Eater at 12:43, 4 December 2015

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