R87085 ZEPPELIN

The Zeppelin armored draisine is a Finnish armored rail vehicle from the Second World War. The first copy of this vehicle was made at the turn of 1940 and 1941. Some sources say that it was the only produced draisine, while others indicate that a few more of this type of vehicle were made in 1941. Considering the unusual nature of the structure - probably only a single piece of art was created. The Zeppelin armored draisine was created from elements of various armored vehicles captured by the Finns during the Winter War with the USSR in 1939-1940. Its armament consisted of a single 45mm cannon and a single 7.62mm DT machinegun, which were housed in a rotating turret. What is certain is that the armored draisine took part in combat operations against the USSR (the so-called continuation war) in the period 1941-1943. It was probably lost in the course of fighting in the Leningrad region.