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In this episode I take a look at Austrian vehicles, the ADGZ and the ADKZ armoured cars, 2 Austrian armoured vehicles that I would like to see in War Thunder in an International Tank Tech Tree!  Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:00 History of Austria before, during and after Anschluss/WW2. 02:13 ADGZ armoured car 03:34 ADKZ armoured car 05:33 Austrian events 06:51 Conclusion  International Tank Tech Tree series Argentinian Tanks: https://youtu.be/Z6p0kXANlrI Austrian Tanks: https://youtu.be/cha99aucLPY Australian Tanks: https://youtu.be/Z-P0xkdHQZQ Belgian Tanks: https://youtu.be/IPUmZ1TFaIs Canadian Tanks: https://youtu.be/dlkyfIcukqs Czechoslovakian Tanks: https://youtu.be/OgGtRi07OIM Egyptian Tanks: https://youtu.be/TXeQki7i854 Finnish Tanks: https://youtu.be/1SzQl9kRQiE  Information sources: Hoggs, I.V. and Weeks, J. (1980) The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles. London, Quarto Publishing Limited, Page 175  Picture sources: ADGZ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADGZ  ADKZ: http://www.warwheels.net/images/adkZhaugh4.jpg http://www.warwheels.net/images/adkZhaugh3.jpg http://www.warwheels.net/images/adkZhaugh1.jpg  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #austria #tanks #austrian #ww2

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00:00Hello everybody, Tereno here, and welcome back to another episode of my proposed international

00:04tank tech tree series. In the last episode we looked at the armoured vehicles used by

00:09Australia that could go into the tech tree, today we're looking at the armoured vehicles

00:13used by Austria that can go into the tech tree. Now I wasn't sure whether to include

00:18Austria into the tech tree at first, because 1. there's only one or two armoured vehicles

00:23that could possibly be included, and Austria was kind of occupied by Germany in 1938,

00:32so most of these could theoretically fit into the German tech tree, like with the Czech-Slovakian

00:37tanks. However, by adding them into the international tech tree, or into the international tech

00:43tree and the German tech tree, it helps boost up the numbers of vehicles available to us,

00:49but it also opens the possibilities of alternate historical events involving Austria. I'll

00:57talk about them more at the end of the episode, but I'll quickly give a little bit of information

01:01about Austria during this time in history. When it was going through a bit of a turbulent

01:06time, from what I understand there was a few coups in Austria, and I think it ended up

01:09with a single-party dictatorship basically, and in 1938 Austria was annexed by Germany.

01:18Basically the Germans, or they saw the Austrians as the same ethnicity, or basically as the

01:22same people, said that they should be part of Germany, and took over, annexed Austria.

01:27I believe they called it the Anschluss, or Anschluss, something like that, I'm not really

01:32good with my German pronunciations. From then on it was basically part of Germany until

01:381945, then the war ended, it was occupied by the Allies, only got its independence in

01:431955. Basically explains why we've only got two armoured cars, because that was the only

01:49things they had the time to produce. After that they were part of Germany, and 1955 is

01:55outside the cut-off date by the time they develop anything, being the 60s and 70s, so

02:01that explains why there's only a few vehicles here, and why it could possibly go in the

02:05German tech tree, but again, like I said, I'm putting them in the international tech

02:08tree as well. But without further ado, let's get straight into the episode.

02:13Now the first vehicle we're looking at is the ADGC, an armoured car used by the Austrians

02:17before the annexation. Not much to say about it really, it was armed with a 20mm cannon,

02:24had 11mm of armour, various machine guns, and could do a speed of something like 43

02:29mph, so lightly armoured, lightly armoured, quite quick. Not really much else to say about

02:36it. Where would it go battle rating wise? The Panzer I, or Panzer I, the Panzer II,

02:42with a 20mm cannon is about, well it's a reserved tier, it's battle rating 1. Same with the

02:47Russian T-60, which is also used as a 20mm autocannon. So, battle rating 1 to 1.3 really,

02:55because armoured cars can also have a few other uses. 1.3 is really the max I would

03:00have it, 1.7 is probably a bit too high but I suppose it could survive there. But I really

03:06wouldn't recommend it being at that battle rating. Now I've also heard some information

03:11about a T-26 cannon being put on some of these armoured cars, with a 45mm cannon. I've decided

03:18not to include that in this tech tree, because 1. I haven't been able to find any definite

03:22evidence this happened, and 2. This probably would have happened under German control,

03:27when they were in the German army. So, it's not really Austria, so I haven't included that for

03:32those reasons. Now the next vehicle caused me a lot of confusion, I wasn't really sure whether

03:37to add it into the game. I'll link you to any pictures of it I find, but it's the ADKZ armoured

03:43car. Basically there wasn't much information on it, and all the information I could find was

03:48very contradictory. One of my books lists it as an armoured car which it implies was built in some

03:53numbers, and says it was armed with a 15mm machine gun, as well as a 7.92mm machine gun.

03:59It doesn't list the armour, it doesn't list the speed or anything. So I decided to do some more

04:07research, and from what I understand, most of the other places I looked at suggested it did

04:12have a 20mm cannon. Unfortunately there are still many contradictions. Some say one 20mm

04:19cannon and an 8mm machine gun, some say two 20mm cannons. I haven't been able to find any

04:25information about the armour or speed exactly, so I'm not sure whether this should even be added,

04:31because there doesn't seem to be much information about it. Now, like I said earlier, my book

04:36suggested it was built in some numbers, but some of the other places I've looked at suggest it was

04:40a prototype, possibly multiple prototypes built on the same chassis. So this could possibly go

04:46in the premium line-up as a rare prototype vehicle, but then you're left with only one

04:50armoured car, which sort of leaves Austria with only one vehicle that's readily accessible for

04:57everyone, barring the use of actual real money and golden eagles. So where would I put this

05:03vehicle in War Thunder? At a tier 1, really most of it depends on the armour. If it's got a 15mm

05:09machine gun, go straight to battle rating 1, it can't survive any higher than that. If it's got

05:13a 20mm cannon, it could possibly go up to 1.3. If it's got two 20mm cannons, 1.7's the very

05:21highest I'd put it, but still I'd suggest putting it at 1.3. It would be a nice vehicle to have in

05:27the game, but I just don't think there's that much information to justify having it. I'll still put

05:31it on here just in case. So now we've looked at what vehicles Austria could bring to a potential

05:37international tank tech tree, how would they fit into War Thunder events-wise? You know,

05:42realistic battles, simulated battles, alternate history events. Well the obvious one would be they

05:50stand up to the Germans in 1938 and fight back, although that could be a bit one-sided with only

05:56armoured cars, but then again the Germans would have had not many tanks themselves and only early

06:02models. I believe the Panzer III's and Panzer IV's would all be prototypes, I'm not even sure if they

06:06could have been used in battle or if they were taken to Austria during the annexation. The vast

06:12majority of tanks would be Panzer II's and Panzer I's if they're ever added into the game, so that

06:17would even things up a little bit. If Panzer III's and Panzer IV's are added in you could have the

06:22Allies join in the event to even things up. Other than that I can't really think of any other events,

06:29maybe some miscellaneous Russian events with the armoured cars under German control, but

06:36other than that I can't think of anything major. But you know, I would quite like the

06:41annexation war type event, that would be quite fun, and you know I think Austria would be a very

06:46good fit for the game, even if they have only got a few vehicles. So that's it for today's episode,

06:52being a bit shorter than usual, but with only two vehicles to look at that's not too surprising.

06:58But anyway I hope you enjoyed the episode, leave a like if you did, subscribe if you like these

07:02sorts of videos, leave feedback, could always do with more feedback. Yeah, thanks for watching,

07:08hope you enjoyed the video, and I'll see you next time!

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