"Brief characteristics:
- Armour: front, side, and turret armour is 13 mm thick.
- Engine: gasoline.
- Length: 3.7 m, width: 2.1 m, height: 1.8 m
- Armament: 2 machine guns, 2 smoke launchers
Vulnerable range:
- For cannons of all calibers: any aimed range.
- For anti-tank rifles: any aimed range.
- For heavy machine guns: aim at the sides, observation slits, and armament at any range.
- For Molotov cocktails: 15-20 meters.
- For anti-tank grenades: 15-20 meters."
The arrows with text indicate the location of the fuel tanks (left) and engine (right).
[Arrow] Throw a Molotov cocktail at the slits and engine grille.
[Crosshairs] Fire rifle and machine gun bullets at obsevation ports and slits.
[Crosshairs with a cannon shell] Shoot the sides, turret, fuel tank, and engine with cannons and anti-tank rifles.
Military Publisher of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Moscow, 1942
Pravda printing house, order #1918"
Pravda printing house, order #1918"
Panzer I is pretty interesting for me, due... lack of any real all around vision device for commander. IIRC in Panzer I, commander did not have a rotating periscope or cupola. Commander's vision device: gunsight and side vision slits (maybe "vision hatches" can be better term). IIRC in Panzer I turret rotation is necessary for all around vision.
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