Thread: Pre WWII Czechoslovakian military photos - help needed!!

1. Tatra T93?
2. Skoda K-series 149mm. ?

I would consider this a sabotage

Almost Studebaker

Tatra 92 and especially heavy Tatra 111 were used in numbers by Wehrmacht, but i´m not sure how big were the factory production capacities

Pioneer, I don't really know the purpose of Skoda RSO, neither I know was it designed by german specifications or Czech developed it by their own initiative.
I heard the thing was intended to be universal all-terrain tractor, but it was overweighted, slow due to weak engine and no suspension, and lacked off-road mobility on eastern front - it sank in weak grounds which prevail here.
And it was costly to produce, for example the wheels were milled - and it was cost-reducing, original "spring-wheels" were even more expencive

I think BD1 is correct. This looks like a Škoda Model 37 (K4) 149mm howitzer. It was introduced into service right before the German occupation, as the
"15 cm hrubá houfnice vz.37." After the occupation, it was produced for the German Army as the "15cm sFH 37(t)."


The Škoda RSO is not the proper model designation, but is, rather a descriptive term for the Radschlepper Ost (wheeled transporter for use in the East) made at the Škoda Works. The Germas had other RSOs. This actual model is Porsche 175, designed by Porsche for use on the Eastern Front. The steel wheels were supposed to help traction in the frozen mud. It was not a successful design, and perhaps 100 were put into service, but few in the East.