By Hilary Doyle, Tom Jentz, Mike Badrocke
The Panther Medium Tank used to be produced as an immediate results of early reviews with the innovative Soviet T-34/76. Designers and armed forces specialists mixed to provide a few diversifications to supply armoured help for the various branches of the German military. no matter if performing as a command communications motor vehicle, desirous about cellular air defence as a flakpanzer, a Panzer department restoration car, or applying the turret as a static defence method, the Panther in its many kinds used to be the mainstay of Germany’s plan to maintain her enemies at bay on fronts. This booklet, the made of 25 years of analysis, examines the varied Panther variations intimately.
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Entstand ein neuer Tigertyp . der T iger 11 . a uc h "K önigstiger" (zuerst vom damaligen Feind . da nn auc h von de utsc her Se itel ge na nnt. Er ging zu Beginn 1944 be i Hcn sch el in Serie. S cm Kwk (L /7 1 stat t L jS6 des T iger I I erzwang e in a nde res La ufwerk . Dies alles in Verbind ung zu einer et was stä rker en Pan zerung führt e abe r zu einer Gew ichtszunahme von 1 1 I gege nüber dem Tiger I. Man hatte mit dem Ge wicht vo n rd . 70 t aber nich t nur den Wagen untermo torosier t {ungünstiges PS-Gewich O , sondern au ch die Zweckm äßigkeit überschritten.
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Oben rechts . Köni gstiger der sch weren Panz erabteilung 503 in Budapest (Oktober 1944) . Er 1ä1\t die flalterung für da s Flieger·MG an dem Ring der Komm andantenkuppel erkennen. Rechts . So kon nt e J as Ende eines Tiger 11 und seiner Besat zung aus sehe n . • . w .. I , . ~ I .. = -, I '-;Ii 44 '. - L. , rc ! c ,I , 1~ ' lf T ! I 45 ... und so standen sie 194 5 _ zumeist in West deutschlan d - noch längere Zeit herum (am Tu rm lehnt eine Granate) bevor sie zu Sammelstellen kamen und schließhe b verschr ottet wurd en .