Hungarian soldiers, protecting a moving troop train, observing suspicious air activity; Eastern Front, 1942.
   The 31M (8 mm) machine guns were produced by the Waffenfabrik Solothurn A.G. of Switzerland.


Machine gun protection

A Hungarian soldier poses with a disabled Soviet 76-mm divisional F-22 gun; Eastern Front, 1942



Wartime scrap

When most people hear the word “tank,” they probably don’t picture this. The Hungarian army created these miniature “mini tanks”. Their purpose was for swift and stealthy maneuvers.
  While they may have seen as a good idea at the time, able to maneuver where regular tanks couldn’t, in the end, they proved to be ineffective, and they ceased to be produced. This is most likely because they were outgunned by larger tanks.

