Borgward (Sd.Kfz. 302); Zündapp and Zachertz (Sd.Kfz. 303) · military or security robot
Goliath tracked mine
Sd.Kfz. 302/303
A small, wire-guided, single-use tracked demolition vehicle of the Second World War. Included here as a historical milestone; survivors are museum pieces.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 56 cmTaller than 30%
- Weight
- 370 kgHeavier than 51%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 6.0 km/hFaster than 19%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
One of the first mass-produced remotely operated ground vehicles (7,564 built).
Real-world use
Used by German forces 1942-1945; many captured by the Allies.
Maker
Borgward (Sd.Kfz. 302); Zündapp and Zachertz (Sd.Kfz. 303)Company · Bremen, Germany (Borgward)How it stacks up
Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Goliath tracked mine (Sd.Kfz. 302/303) is taller than 30% of the 10 other military & security that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Goliath tracked mine (Sd.Kfz. 302/303) is heavier than 51% of the 35 other military & security that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Goliath tracked mine (Sd.Kfz. 302/303) is faster than 19% of the 31 other military & security that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Tracks
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. It was a remotely controlled, wire-guided tracked vehicle carrying an explosive charge to a target, where the charge and carrier were detonated.
- Actuators & motors
- Sd.Kfz. 302: two electric motors; Sd.Kfz. 303a/303b: cheaper two-stroke petrol engine. Tracked chassis, top speed just over 6 km/h.
- Hands
- None; carried a 60 kg (302) or 100 kg (303) explosive charge and was destroyed with its target.
- Sensors & vision
- None; the operator steered by sight.
- Compute
- None. Joystick control box connected by a 650 m triple-strand cable that steered the vehicle and fired the charge.
- Materials & build
- Thin armour that could not stop small-arms fire; ground clearance 11.4 cm.
- Other details
- The control cable was its main weakness; many at Normandy were disabled when artillery cut their cables.
From the maker
Goliath tracked mine (Sd.Kfz. 302/303) is the only machine from Borgward (302); Zündapp and Zachertz (303) in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- 7,564 built in total (302 and 303 versions)
- Sold or delivered
- not sold (military issue)
- Where it is sold or used
- Germany (Borgward, Bremen, for the 302; Zündapp and Zachertz for the 303)
- Customers and pilots
- German Army Panzer and combat engineer units; used at Anzio, in the Warsaw Uprising and in Normandy in 1944
Sources
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