LVT-4 Water Buffalo / Buffalo IV

LVT-4 Water Buffalo
Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Unarmored), Mark 4, LVT (4)
     
Název:
Name:
LVT-4 Water Buffalo LVT-4 Water Buffalo
Originální název:
Original Name:
LVT-4 Water Buffalo
Výrobce:
Producer:
Food Machinery Corp., Riverside, California
Graham-Paige Motor Corp., Detroit, Michigan
St. Louis Car Co., St. Louis, Missouri
Období výroby:
Production Period:
DD.MM.1943-DD.MM.194R
Vyrobeno kusů:
Number of Produced:
8348 (8351 ?)
Prototyp vyroben:
Prototype Built:
DD.MM.1943
Osádka:
Crew:
3
Technické údaje:
Technical Data:
 
Celková hmotnost:
Gross Vehicle Weight:
16511 kg 36400 lb
Celková délka:
Overall Length:
7950 mm 26ft 1in
Celková šířka:
Overall Width:
3251 mm 10ft 8in
Celková výška:
Overall Height:
2489 mm 8ft 2in
Světlá výška:
Ground Clearance:
? mm ?
Pohon:
Propulsion:
 
Typ:
Type:
Continental W-670-9A Continental W-670-9A
Výkon:
Power:
186 kW při 2400 ot/min 250 bhp at 2400 rpm
Převodové ústrojí:
Transmission:
- manuální převodovka
- počet stupňů: 5+1
- manual gearbox
- number of gears: 5+1
Výkony:
Performance:
 
Rychlost na silnici:
Road Speed:
32 km/h 20 mph
Rychlost v terénu:
Cross-country Speed:
? km/h ? mph
Rychlost plavby:
Water Speed:
12 km/h 7.5 mph
Jízdní dosah po silnici:
Cruising Range on Road:
241 km 150 mi
Jízdní dosah v terénu:
Cross-country Cruising Range:
? km ? mi
Jízdní dosah ve vodě:
Cruising Range in the Water:
121 km 75 mi
Překonávání překážek:
Obstacles Crossing:
 
Svah:
Gradient:
27 ° 60 %
Boční náklon:
Side Slope:
? ° ? %
Překročivost:
Trench Crossing:
1.52 m 60in
Výstupnost:
Vertical Obstacle:
0.91 m 36in
Přepravní kapacita:
Transport Capacity:
užitečné zatížení: 4082 kg
osoby: 24 vojáků
payload: 9000 lb
persons: 24 troops
Uživatelské státy:
User States:


1)


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Poznámka:
Note:
Výzbroj:
- 2x kulomet M2HB
- 2x kulomet M1919A4


1) jako Buffalo IV
Armament:
- 2x M2HB machine gun
- 2x M1919A4 machine gun


1) as Buffalo IV
Zdroje:
Sources:
Mesko, J.: AMTRACS in Action, Squadron-Signal Publication, Carrollton, 1993
http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/lvt2.html#LVT4
www.globalsecurity.org
http://www.chars-francais.net/archives/lvt4.htm
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LVT-4
Buffalo IV
(British designation)


Unlike LVT-2, the engine was moved forward behind the driver's cab and a loading ramp was added to the rear of the body, enabling more comfortable boarding and disembarking of transported persons and better handling of the load. The vehicle was not armored, but it was possible to equip it with additional armor with a thickness of 6 (on the sides) - 13 (front) mm. In this case, the load capacity of the vehicle was reduced to 1360 kg.


They were used in combat for the first time on Saipan, then on Guam and Tinian in the summer of 1944. In Britain, a flamethrower version LVT-4 (F) Sea Serpent was developed on the basis of LVT-4. After the war, the LVT-4 was also in the arsenal of the French Armed Forces, which deployed them in combat operations in Indochina (Vietnam) and during the Suez Crisis. British vehicles were often armed with a 20mm Polsten cannon and 2x 7.62 mm Browning machine gun
LVT-4 Water Buffalo / Buffalo IV - Francúzsky LVT-4 v Indočíne (www.chars-francais.net)

Francúzsky LVT-4 v Indočíne (www.chars-francais.net)
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Although these vehicles were not used immediately during the invasion of Normandy (neither the Americans nor the British), their time came when crossing water obstacles inland.
Thus, the Buffalo (LVT-4) was used during the crossing of the Rhine, at the mouth of the river Schelda and at some events in the Baltic coastal areas in northern Germany ...
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LVT-4 / Buffalo IV (P346467, "SEVEOAKS"), Bovington Tank Museum, 2004. Vozidlo nese kamufláž stroje, který operoval v sestavě 11. královského tankového pluku ze sestavy 79. obrněné divize v době, kdy Buffala tohoto útvaru zajišťovala překonávání řeky Rýn. (©Radek Havelka)



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Jiná fotka na stejné vozidlo z muzea v Bovingtonu která aspoň trochu ukazuje celkové tvary vozidla, bohužel velikost LVT a stísněný prostor focení moc nepřejí
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LVT-4, Musée des Blindés, 2004. (©Radek Havelka)


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LVT-4 (935807, SEA HORSE), Military technical museum, Lešany, September 2017. The vehicle has been in the collections of the Military historical institute získano in October 2016 for 30 thousand euros in an auction of the exhibits of the repealed Normandy Tank Museum in the French city of Catz.

A vehicle of this type, however, could on the territory of today's Czech republic appear much earlier. In December of 1955 raised the Automobile and tractor management (ATS) of the Czechoslovak people's army requirement for the importation of samples of american techniques that were used by the armies of the united nations during the Korean war ("big crawler amphibian type LVT (Buffalo), all-terrain truck REO 6x6 Truck and armoured personnel carriers to the latest types"). The technique had come from the spoils of war, which ended in the people's republic of China or the Korean livodě democratic republic, and later was supposed to be in Czechoslovakia used for the purposes of military-technical espionage: "For the development and study work in the field of automotive and tractor technology is necessary to get the most samples and technical documentation techniques used in the capitalist armies. These materials will greatly accelerate and improve the development and study work, further enable the processing of credible reports on the tactical-technical characteristics of this material."

The requirement of the ATS was first handed over to the department ONT, which in this issue in January 1956, recommended to turn to the Soviet union: "Due to the fact that throughout the war and after the war were and are on the general staff of the Korean army's soviet experts, who were watching and evaluating american military equipment, I recommend that the proposed questions were first consulted with the USSR and this asked about the transfer of the experience gained, possibly even samples." a Solution to this problem was subsequently forwarded to the department , Technical management. Her chief of gen. mjr. Vaclav Kukal, therefore, in march 1956 at the general staff in the Moscow been discussing the possibility of winning prize techniques. At this meeting he was advised that the czechoslovak party appealed directly to the Korean people's army or the Chinese people's liberation army, because the soviet general staff cannot get the required techniques to convey. In April and may 1956 was, therefore, at the Ministry of foreign trade (department of economic and scientific-technical cooperation) and the foreign trade company Metrans examined whether it would be possible to the desired material to obtain the path of civilian technical cooperation. Even this path does not lead to the desired result, and so in June 1956 was the Intelligence management discussed the question of import of technology by the czechoslovak military attache in the Korean livodě the democratic republic of the. After an internal bureaucratic chaos on the czechoslovak general staff was the need to import samples again examined in August 1956, after which originated the draft of the letter on demand techniques through the military attaché in North Korea. Even this plan got into a blind alley, and so had a Car and a tractor management from your requirement on the import of the spoils of war finally omitted.

Source:
VÚA-VHA, MNO, 1956, the directorate of the general staff/TS, carton 533,. 24 1/2b-16, no. 01485/TS/56, Imports of automotive and tractor technology from the spoils of war, 4. July 1956
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