OSS Briefing Film - The Weasel
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In 1942 the Army requested a special snow vehicle to be developed for \"special operations\". It needed to be glider borne with other specifications. Then the engineers went to work...
What a nifty vehicle
If u need some vintage weasels, send hrm, and the hundt group around. My memory serves, Middle Ohio may still have some bog storage weasels some lake berms around there may remain weasel storage. NS.
Why not just use the Bren Carrier, they're almost the same vehicle. The British were already using it on gliders.
There would obviously be no kick backs for an existing vehicle, that's the truth of it.
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They're still being sold. A fully restored one to WW2 is available for a mere $30K-
www.nsjp.biz/weasel-for-sale.html And in 2018 one in Norway was for sale on ebay with a starting bid of $0.01 (ONE CENT!) foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-studebaker-snow-weasel-was-on-sale-for-one-cent-an-1830786682
"Satisfactorily amphibious . . ." The M29C variant was the real swimmer. A true ATV. This vehicle provided reconnaissance troops with a very mobile platform. It served as a light cargo carrier, troops transport, and ubiquitous rescue vehicle, both in US service and out.
Two of them disappeared during a Joint Foces Training Exercise,where Russians and Canadian Troops were involved.
Hard to believe these weren't being used in the rice paddies of Vietnam.
So much more versatile than a Gama goat