Kubuś
Sign in to saveKubuś (Polish for "Little Jacob") is a Polish improvised fighting vehicle used by the Home Army in the Warsaw Uprising during World War II. The single vehicle was built in secret to function as an armoured car and armoured personnel carrier for assaults by the Home Army, where it suffered damage and was abandoned after two weeks of service. The original Kubuś vehicle survived the war and is on display in the Polish Army Museum, while a full-scale replica was built for the Warsaw Uprising Museum and frequently takes part in various open-air festivals and reenactment shows.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Kubuś
- Weapon.image
- Kubus_in_MWP.jpg
- Weapon.caption
- The original Kubuś car at the Polish Army Museum
- Weapon.type
- Improvised armored car/personnel carrier
- Weapon.origin
- Poland
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.service
- August 22, 1944 – September 6, 1944
- Weapon.used_by
- Home Army
- Weapon.wars
- Warsaw Uprising
- Weapon.designer
- Main engineer: Walerian Bielecki (nom-de-guerre Jan)
- Weapon.design_date
- August 8, 1944 – August 22, 1944
- Weapon.manufacturer
- A car repair shop belonging to Stanisław Kwiatkowski in Warsaw's borough of Powiśle, at the corner of Tamka Street and Topiel Street.
- Weapon.developed_from
- Chevrolet 157 truck
- Weapon.production_date
- August 8, 1944 – August 22, 1944
- Weapon.number
- 1
- Weapon.width
- Front: Rear:
- Weapon.crew
- 2 – 3
- Weapon.passengers
- 8 – 10 Partisans
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6 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Construction and Service
- After the Uprising
- Notes and references
- External links
Kubuś (Polish for "Little Jacob") is a Polish improvised fighting vehicle used by the Home Army in the Warsaw Uprising during World War II. The single vehicle was built in secret to function as an armoured car and armoured personnel carrier for assaults by the Home Army, where it suffered damage and was abandoned after two weeks of service. The original Kubuś vehicle survived the war and is on display in the Polish Army Museum, while a full-scale replica was built for the Warsaw Uprising Museum and frequently takes part in various open-air festivals and reenactment shows.
==History== === Design === thumb|left|200px|Modern replica at the Warsaw Uprising Museum The Kubuś was based on the chassis of a civilian Chevrolet 157 truck which had been license-built in pre-war Poland by the Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein company. The chassis was fitted with steel plates for protection of the crew, which were bolted to a steel frame and then welded together. The armoured car had a crew of two, could carry between eight and ten soldiers, and was armed with an air-dropped PIAT Mk I (supplied by the Allies), a Soviet-built DP-27 machine gun, underground-built K pattern flamethrower and hand grenades (most likely Polish-built Sidolówka and Filipinka grenades), in addition to personal armament of the soldiers. The name Kubuś was taken in honour of the wife of one of the constructors known as Globus, as she was killed in early August and had used the pseudonym Kubuś, Polish for "Little Jacob", but also the Polish name for Winnie the Pooh.