Sd.Kfz. 247

'''Sd.Kfz. 247''' (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 247) was an armored car used by the German armed forces during World War II.

Before the war, ten six-wheeled models (Ausf. A) were built; this was followed during the war by 58 four-wheeled models (Ausf. B).

Description
The ''Sd.Kfz. 247'' had an open-topped, thinly armored body mounted on a wheeled chassis. It was unarmed as its six-man crew was not intended to fight; rather, it was intended for use by the commanders of motorcycle and motorized reconnaissance battalions, although neither version was fitted with any radios. Its armor was intended to stop 7.92 mm armor-piercing bullets at ranges over 30 m. Photographic evidence shows some Ausf. B vehicles were retro-fitted with a star-shaped radio antenna mounted inside the crew compartment, and an additional armor plate bolted to the lower glacis of the hull.

Ausf. A
Krupp built ten ''Ausf. A'' models on the chassis of its six-wheel "Krupp Protze" truck in 1937. Its 3.5 L 4-cylinder air-cooled gasoline flat engine (Krupp M 305) of  65 hp, gave it a top speed of 70 km/h and a range of 350 km.

Like all of the other vehicles that used this chassis, the ''Ausf. A'' had very limited cross-country mobility, drivers being advised to stay on roads and trails. It weighed 5.2 t, was 5.2 m long, 1.96 m wide and 1.7 m tall.

Ausf. B
Daimler-Benz built 58 of these in 1941—1942 on a four-wheel drive heavy car chassis (s.Pkw. Typ 1c). The front-mounted engine was an 8-cylinder, 3.823 L Horch 3.5 petrol engine, giving it a road speed of 80 km/h. It had a maximum range of 400 km.