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Raupenschlepper Ost literally Caterpillar Tractor East is more commonly abbreviated to RSO. This fully tracked lightweight vehicle was conceived in response to the poor performance of wheeled and half-tracked vehicles in the mud and snow during the Wehrmacht’s first winter on the Soviet Front. The RSO may have been inspiredTemplate:Who? by very similar full-tracked small tractors in use in other armies (such as the Soviet STZ-5 Stalingradec and the U.S.
