"Walkers and Jumpers " Topic

"A pillbox can cover a certain sector of terrain with its fire. If the enemy attacks in a different place, there is no way to move it over. Or is there? The issue of moving pillboxes around has been tackled by many inventors. The simplest solution was to put them on wheels. German inventor Maximilian Schumann was the first to propose this solution towards the end of the 19th century. His armoured pillboxes were widely used by the Germans in early WWI. A drawback of his design was that they were impossible to move in combat and that an external power sources was needed.

The optimal solution would be a self-propelled pillbox. During the Great Patriotic War, many inventions of this type were designed. Many of them look exotic and strange, but they were very seriously reviewed at the highest levels.

Alekseenko's Walking Pillbox

In late June of 1942, one such invention came from the city of Magnitogorsk. The people who were involved in the discussion signify how seriously this invention was considered. The first person to familiarize himself with the project was the chief of the Leningrad armour commanders' continuing education academy, Major-General A.V. Borzikov. He passed this project on to the chief of GABTU, Lieutenant-General Ya.N. Fedorenko. In the accompanying letter, he wrote that he spoke with the People's Commissar of Black Metallurgy I.F. Tevosyan and that the production of a prototype was approved if Fedorenko agreed. What was this wonder-weapon that was noticed by such senior commanders?…"
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Amicalement
Armand

German's continued to experiment with the concept like the famous (or infamous) Hueschrecke 10 (Grasshopper 10 in English)in WW II:
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What else is a tank but a movable pillbox?

Thanks for the link!.

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Armand