Sd.Kfz. 251/16 Ausf. C

German medium half-track armored personnel carrier during the Second World War. It was created by Hanomag in 1938 on the basis of the Sd Kfz 11 artillery tractor and was mass-produced from June 1939 to March 1945. During World War II, the SdKfz 251, along with the light SdKfz 250, was the main German armored personnel carrier, and also served as the basis for a whole family of vehicles for various purposes. In terms of the number of copies produced during World War II, it was second only to the American M3 armored personnel carrier. In its course, the SdKfz 251 was supplied in small quantities to the allies of Germany, and in the post-war period, its modernized version of the Tatra OT-810 was produced in Czechoslovakia until 1962 at the Podpolyansk stroyarne plant in Detva. In the 1980s, the army of Czechoslovakia was massively removed from service, and in 1995 the last copies were removed from storage.