Panzer Fallschirmjäger Porsche

[ysi_maniac]

Pic and title say all.

[ysi_maniac]

The Parachutist's "Ten Commandments"

Here is a translation of a document captured from a German parachute trooper who was taken prisoner in Greece. Its title is "The Parachutist's Ten Commandments."

1. You are the elite of the German Army. For you, combat shall be fulfillment. You shall seek it out and train yourself to stand any test.

2. Cultivate true comradeship, for together with your comrades you will triumph or die.

3. Be shy of speech and incorruptible. Men act, women chatter; chatter will bring you to the grave.

4. Calm and caution, vigor and determination, valor and a fanatical offensive spirit will make you superior in attack.

5. In facing the foe, ammunition is the most precious thing. He who shoots uselessly, merely to reassure himself, is a man without guts. He is a weakling and does not deserve the title of parachutist.

6. Never surrender. Your honor lies in Victory or Death.

7. Only with good weapons can you have success. So look after them on the principle—First my weapons, then myself.

8. You must grasp the full meaning of an operation so that, should your leader fall by the way, you can carry it out with coolness and caution.

9. Fight chivalrously against an honest foe; armed irregulars deserve no quarter.

10. With your eyes open, keyed up to top pitch, agile as a greyhound, tough as leather, hard as Krupp steel, you will be the embodiment of a German warrior.

[Taiidantomcat]

Can't wait to see 

[GTX]

So if I read this correctly, you are going to have a para-dropped version of this tank...holy cow, what's the carrier aircraft???

Regards,

Greg

[lancer]

Will be interesting to see this tank. How many 'chutes will it need to stop from breaking when it hit's the ground?
also liked the 'Ten commandments' a lot too.

[tc2324]

Looking forward to this, will make a refreshing change from the norm. 

Can`t remember if it was the Germans or Soviets, but one of them looked into fitting tanks with wings during the war so they could be toed like a glider and `fly` onto the battlefield.

[NARSES2]

Looking forward to this, will make a refreshing change from the norm. 

Can`t remember if it was the Germans or Soviets, but one of them looked into fitting tanks with wings during the war so they could be toed like a glider and `fly` onto the battlefield.

Soviets but I think it was pre war

[ChernayaAkula]

Trust the Soviets to try something like that. ANTONOV A-40 KRYLYA TANKA

[ysi_maniac]

As it was stablised in the old Alt Luftwaffe thread:
Hermann Goering Division was a Luftwaffe armoured division http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallschirm-Panzer_Division_1_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring
So a standard tank can fit in this GB, no need to be air dropable, IMO.

This Porsche project, called Typ 180 and VK 45.01 (P2), existed. It began in May 1941 and was cancelled in November 1942 mainly due to problems with engines.
My Alt history may be that the Luftwaffe has problems to get supply of Henschel's King Tiger, as these were almost exclusively reserved for Waffen SS, them H.Goering manages to firm a contract with Porsche to produce this tank exclusively for Luftwaffe units.

BTW I have another idea that requires more work: scalorama with the hull of a 1/72 JagdPanther and a 1/35 Fallschirmjäger figure to build something like a Wiesel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesel_AWC

[ysi_maniac]

More info on Porsche Typ 180: http://fingolfen.tripod.com/tiger/vk4502p.html
My model will be very similar but not equal. Pics soon ...

[ysi_maniac]

Fujimi 1/76