This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).From the Creators of Doodle God Doodle Devil Copyright of the pictures cannot be confirmed so they are linked rather than lifted. has some additional pictures and info that may be of interest.Dutch Cavalry Museum has a Goliath-tank in its collection.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Borgward "Goliath". History of United States Naval Operations in World War II vol. Darlington, Maryland: Darlington Productions. 14: Gepanzerte Pionier-Fahrzeuge (Armored Combat Engineer Vehicles, Goliath to Raeumer). Funklenkpanzer: A History of German Army Remote-and Radio-Controlled Armor Units, trans. Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two, 2nd ed.
Chamberlain, Peter, and Hilary Doyle (1999). Muzeum dopravy (transportation museum), Bratislava, Slovakia.ĭefense against the German Goliath was reenacted in the 1957 Polish film Kanal, documenting the final days of the Warsaw uprising. Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Belgium. Fort Garry Horse Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. the Musée du Débarquement Utah Beach, Normandy, France. Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna, Austria. The Goliath did help lay the foundation for post-World War II advances in remote-controlled vehicle technologies. A few Goliaths were also seen on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day, though most were rendered inoperative due to artillery blasts severing their command cables.Īlthough a total of 7,564 Goliaths were produced, the single-use weapon was not considered a success due to the high unit cost, low speed (only just above 6 mph, or 9.5 km/h), poor ground clearance (just 11.4 centimeters), vulnerable command cables and thin armour which failed to protect the remote bomb from any form of antitank weapons. Goliaths were used at Anzio in Italy in April 1944, and against the Polish resistance during the Warsaw Uprising 1944. They were used principally by specialized Panzer and combat engineer units. Goliaths were used on all fronts where the Wehrmacht fought, beginning in early 1942. 303) used a simpler, more reliable gasoline engine. Early model Goliaths used an electric motor but, as these were costly to make (3000 Reichsmarks) and difficult to repair in a combat environment, later models (known as the SdKfz. Each Goliath was disposable, being intended to be blown up with its target. Two of the strands were used to move and steer the Goliath, the third was used for detonation. The control box was attached to the Goliath by a triple-strand cable connected to the rear of the vehicle, for transmitting power to the electric driven version. 
The vehicle was steered remotely via a joystick control box. 302 ( Sonderkraftfahrzeug, ‘special-purpose vehicle’), called the Leichter Ladungsträger (‘light charge carrier’), or Goliath, which carried 60 kg of explosives. Borgward automotive company of Bremen, Germany to develop a similar vehicle for the purpose of carrying a minimum of 50 kg of explosives. In late 1940, after recovering the prototype of a miniature tracked vehicle developed by the French vehicle designer Adolphe Kégresse near the Seine, the Wehrmacht's ordnance office directed the Carl F.W. Goliath 303a captured by the Polish troops during Warsaw Uprising on display in the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw Goliath, electric driven version (Sd.Kfz. British soldiers with captured German Goliath tracked mines.
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