Neubau-Fahrzeug Nr.3-5

Ordered in 1930, the Neubaufahrzug (Nb Fz) was designed to provide the Germans with a 20 ton multi turret main tank. Only 5 were produced, 2 prototypes and 3 experimental vehicles, with the inital vehicles being armed with a 7.5cm KwK L/24, a 3.7cm KwK L/45 and three 7.92mm MG13. The prototypes were used in 1940 at the tank training schools. The 3 experimental vehicles served with Pz Abt z b V 40. In April 1940 they were shipped to Norway where they served for a month with one being destroyed.

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