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PanzerwagenArmoured car (tank), first developed from a patent taken out by Lieutenant G. Burstyn for a cross-country armoured car with a rotatable turret, which was rejected by the technical committee of the Austrian army in 1912. The British army made practical use of his patent a few years later (tanks were used in the battle of the Somme in September 1916). The great powers developed the invention during the period between the two World Wars. In his book "Der Kampfwagenkrieg" (1934) General L. von Eimannsberger presented important theoretical considerations on how to use armoured cars in large units. The "Kürassier", a tank destroyer with a French cannon, was for the most part developed in Austria and produced at the Steyr works during the 1970s. Literature: W. Albrecht, G. Burstyn (1879-1945) und die Entwicklung der Panzerwaffe, 21973; W. Schwarz, General der Artillerie Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger (1878-1945), in: Militaria Austriaca 15, 1994.
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