Following the end of the Second World War, the defeated German Army was disbanded by the victorious Allies. However, the everrising tensions with the Soviet Union forced the Western Allies to reconsider this decision. The new West German Army, known as the Bundeswehr, was formed in 1955, and soon after, a large rearmament process was initiated. In the case of the armored reconnaissance units, the Bundeswehr requested the acquisition of small tracked armored reconnaissance vehicles. These came in the form of the Schützenpanzer (Kurz) Infantry Fighting Vehicle (Short). Ironically, these were developed by the French company Hotchkiss, as the Germans lacked the industrial capacity to do so on their own. The reconnaissance vehicle was offered as part of a family of vehicles, ranging from infantry fighting vehicles to ambulances. Among the vehicles offered was a reconnaissance tank destroyer, which would be known as the Spähpanzer 1C (Reconnaissance tank 1C) or SP. 1C for short. While initially, this project was seen as a good solution, it quickly turned into a flawed vehicle with numerous problems which ultimately led to its cancellation.


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