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[[File:Schützenpanzer (lang) Hispano-Suiza HS 30.jpg|thumb|left|HS.30 as presented in the [[German Tank Museum]] in 2008]]
The HS.30 mounted a small turret with a [[Hispano-Suiza HS.820]] 20-mm [[autocannon]] and a 15×15 periscopic sight. The role of the 20-mm autocannon in German doctrine was to engage helicopters, anti-tank weapons, and light armored vehicles, thus freeing tanks to concentrate their fire against other tanks. Even with the turret, the HS.30 was fully two feet (0.6 m) lower in height than the M113 -
Despite the German army's insistence on a true infantry fighting vehicle rather than just an armored personnel carrier, the ''Panzergrenadier'' brigades included an infantry battalion that was carried initially on trucks and later with M113 APCs. This force composition likely resulted as much from cost considerations as it did from doctrine that called for one third of the ''Panzergrenadiere'' to be a motorized force.<ref>Haworth, p. 40.</ref>
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