Indholdsfortegnelse for December 2025 i Military Trader

KASOTA, Minn. — Imagine driving through the woods while on vacation with your friends when you come across two parked cars blocking the road. What do you do? A. Turn around and find another route to your destination B. Get out of the vehicle and try to push them out of the way C. Call the local authorities and wait until they move them D. Drive over them and have a blast doing it If you answered D, then an extreme adventure at Drive A Tank, the nation’s only venue where you can drive real military tanks and shoot historic military weaponry in an indoor controlled range, could be in your future. Drive A Tank is a unique opportunity to live out fantasies of being unstoppable and having control over some…

It is not often that plans to design and develop a military vehicle or aircraft by a consortium of several or more companies actually succeed, but occasionally such an idea does work. One such example is the American-designed and built so-called “Liberty Truck”, which entered service during the later stages of World War I and went on to be used not just by the American Army, but also the Allied armies of France and Britain. By 1917 the war in Europe had entered its third year and there was still a stalemate along the front line, which extended almost 500 miles from the North Sea coast of Belgium down to the Swiss border — an area known as the “Western Front”. Following a series of German acts of aggression, which…

Time To Re-tire Q: I’m getting ready to replace the tires on both my M416 trailers and maybe the MUTT, too. Should I buy NDT or NDCC tires? What is the difference between them? 90% of my driving will be hard-surfaced roads. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. —Jerry Bubolz A: There is a slight difference in tread pattern. The best way to see this is to look at some of the tire ads in the magazine. NDCC (Non-Directional Cross Country) may perform slightly better in soft terrain and sand… though I haven’t noticed much difference. NDT (Non-Directional Tread) is more of a compromise for highway use, but neither pattern wears well or lasts for long on the road. Nor do they grip well on wet or slippery…

Here’s a scenario that may be familiar to many historical military vehicle owners: you’re returning home about dusk after spending a weekend at an HMV show, or returning from a camping trip, in your MB, GPW, M38, M151, M37, M715, G506 or CCKW. The last two days were sunny, but now dark clouds are massing above and raindrops begin to spatter your windshield. As daylight fades, the rain increases. The glass in front of you blurs, and you start to lose sight of the road’s center line. You reach up and pull out the little knob on your windshield wiper motor, but instead of vigorous wiper blade action providing you with much-needed vision, all you get is a sickly hiss while your wiper blade creeps across the glass at the…

It is well known that much of “warfighting” is actually logistics. It matters little how good the battle plan is, or how brave the soldiers are; if the men can’t get to the front line, they won’t win the battle. I the men don’t have bullets, they won’t win. And the men will need food, clothing, medical supplies, etc., etc., in order to be an effective fighting unit. Most of these goods move toward the front by truck — and the more of the truck that is taken up by “truck”, the less space there is for cargo. Few boxes of ammunition are carried on the hood of a CCKW, but many are carried in the cargo bed. It is for exactly these reasons that the AFKWX, or “cab over…

One of the main principles of Switzerland’s foreign policy has always been to avoid involvement in conflicts between other states. It has maintained the world’s oldest policy of military neutrality and hasn’t participated in a foreign war since the Treaty of Paris ended the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. However, the Swiss fought a brief civil war in 1847. Despite its adherence to neutrality — or, more accurately, to ensure it can remain neutral — Switzerland has maintained a standing army. It has been reasonably well armed and well equipped. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, Bern mobilized its army, fearing it could be dragged into the conflict. It wasn’t known at the time, but the Schlieffen Plan, which called for German forces to outflank French fortifications…

“I hope you can help/advise me on a matter relating to the movement of Allied troops up through Italy at the end of World War II. I found a WWIKI hammer in Italy a few years ago, that I believe probably belonged to a U.S. serviceman (it has inscribed on it ‘KR Lew’, which I guess is their name, and ‘Milwaukee’.) I’d love to be able to reunite it with the descendants of this serviceman. You’d think that it would be quite significant for them to have it! I’ve contacted the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper (no reply) and a U.S. military artifacts group (no help), can you help? Any ideas or suggestions? —Adriano Muccioli “I’ve found a clutch set in a area in Germany where heavy fighting happened in February 1945.…