!!!Panzerwagen

Armoured car (tank), first developed from a patent taken out by 
Lieutenant G.  Burstyn for a cross-country armoured car with a 
rotatable turret, which was rejected by the technical committee of the 
Austrian army in 1912. The British army made practical use of his 
patent a few years later (tanks were used in the battle of the Somme 
in September 1916). The great powers developed the invention during 
the period between the two World Wars. In his book "Der 
Kampfwagenkrieg" (1934) General L. von Eimannsberger 
presented important theoretical considerations on how to use armoured 
cars in large units. The "Kuerassier", a tank destroyer with a 
French cannon, was for the most part developed in Austria and produced 
at the Steyr works during the 1970s.

!Literature
W. Albrecht, G. Burstyn (1879-1945) und die Entwicklung 
der Panzerwaffe, %%sup 2/%1973; W. Schwarz, General der Artillerie 
Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger (1878-1945), in: Militaria 
Austriaca 15, 1994.


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