Sd.Kfz. 10/1 The
Sd.Kfz. 10/1 was a chemical detection vehicle. Before the outbreak of World War II only ninety were intended to be delivered in 1940–42 to equip the
Chemical Troops (Nebeltruppen), but the 3 May 1940 production plan mentions that was to be produced at a rate of thirty per month until 400 have been built and thereafter at ten per month. The last mention is a report that MWC was to complete ten vehicles by 15 January 1943. Production may have continued after that, but definitely not after 1943.
Sd.Kfz. 10/2 The
Sd.Kfz. 10/2 was a chemical decontamination vehicle fitted with a capacity spreader and space for eight barrels of decontamination chemicals. This left room for only two crewmen, who had a bench seat between the barrels in front of the rear chassis wall. Each barrel could cover an area of . The barrels were stowed on platforms over the tracks with foldable outer rails. The 10/2 had a significant number of differences from the standard model, including two fuel tanks totaling , one of which had a tunnel to accommodate the auxiliary driveshaft which powered the spreader. This reduced the road range to only . The 10/2 was long, wide, and high, depending if the top was up or down. It weighed empty and loaded. While spreading, its top speed was only . Sixty to seventy were built in 1938–39.
Sd.Kfz. 10/3 The
Sd.Kfz. 10/3 was equipped with a tank and spray system to lay down poison gas barriers. The spray nozzle swung back and forth to cover a width of . Approximately 67 were built in 1938–39. On 15 April 1942, the
Army High Command ( – OKH) ordered the tanks on the 65 vehicles in storage dismounted, the spray system disabled and the vehicles modified to carry 216 rounds of anti-tank ammunition. The vehicles were to be issued to rebuilding
Nebeltruppen units. By this stage of the war, they were equipped with
Nebelwerfer rocket launchers and had organic anti-tank guns.
Sd.Kfz. 10/4 and 10/5 The
Sd.Kfz. 10/4 carried the
2 cm FlaK 30 mount on a special platform with fold-down side and rear panels. This platform was specifically designed for the
Flak 30 mount and could not readily accept a
Flak 38 mount or vice versa. To accommodate the gun mount the vehicle was both wider and taller than normal, namely wide and and weighed empty. Four folding seats were fitted on the platform for the crew. Some of these gun mounts had a
gun shield fitted. The ready ammunition bins fastened to the side and rear panels (four on each side and two in the rear) contained one 20-round magazine each. It usually towed an ammunition trailer (
Sd.Ah. 51 - Sonderanhänger—special single-axle trailer) with 640 more rounds, the gun's sights and its rangefinder. Vehicles built in 1940 (only) were fitted with removable loading ramps, cable rollers to act as pulleys, and a reinforced tail gate to allow a
Flak 30, mounted on a
Sd.Ah. 51 trailer, to be quickly dismounted. From 1940 they were fitted with rifle racks over the front fenders and from 1942 these were given sheet metal covers as protection from the weather.
Flak 38s were mounted on
10/4s beginning in 1941 although the platform was not widened until later. As the war progressed the guns were more often fitted with gun shields. The
Sd.Kfz. 10/5 carried the
2 cm FlaK 38 whose mount was wider, and lighter, than that of the
Flak 30, and the platform was enlarged to accommodate it from 1942. Vehicle width increased to , but the height returned to that of the normal vehicle. Initially, vehicles modified with the wider platform for the
Flak 38 did not have a special designation, but they were given one sometime in 1943. The earliest known use is 1 September 1943, but the older name lingered until 1 December 1944. The Luftwaffe ordered 293 sets of armor plate (
Behelfspanzerung) for its vehicles in 1943. These plates covered the radiator, windshield and both sides of the driver's compartment and were fitted to both versions. Production began in 1939 for deliveries to the Army and Luftwaffe, although the exact numbers will never be known as they were often not broken out separately in the production reports. At any rate, Adler built 1054 between 1939 and February 1943, although some of these were completed as
10/5s beginning in 1942. MWC was awarded two contracts for 975
10/5s to be delivered in 1943–44, but 13 of these were delivered as ordinary
Sd.Kfz. 10s in 1944.
Field modifications Some vehicles were fitted with a
3.7 cm PaK 36 or
5 cm PaK 38 anti-tank gun. Sometimes they had the cab and engine compartment armored as well. The
Pak 36 was usually carried complete, but the
Pak 38 was usually mounted without its wheels on a pivot mount. At the end of the war, some vehicles were equipped with a triple-mount ("Drilling" in German) of MG151 autocannon on a conical pivot. It was the same mount as was used in
Sd.Kfz. 251/21. ==Deployment and use==