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The Jagdpanther (German: "hunting Panther"), Sd.Kfz. 173, was a tank destroyer (Jagdpanzer, a self-propelled anti-tank gun) built by Germany during World War II. The Jagdpanther combined the 8.8 cm Pak 43 anti-tank gun, similar to the main gun of the Tiger II , with the armor and suspension of the Panther chassis.
The Jagdpanzer IV / Sd.Kfz. 162, was a German tank destroyer based on the Panzer IV chassis and built in three main variants. As one of the casemate-style turretless Jagdpanzer (tank destroyer, literally "hunting tank") designs, it was developed against the wishes of Heinz Guderian, the inspector general of the Panzertruppen, as a replacement for the Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III).
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Jagdpanther: January 1944 Nazi Germany: 415 Jagdpanzer IV: December 1943 Nazi Germany: 2,000 Jagdtiger: February 1944 Nazi Germany: 70–88 Jagdpanzer 38(t) [a] [4] March 1944 Nazi Germany Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. 2,827
Unlike the Jagdpanther, the Jagdtiger 's casemate design did not extend its glacis plate upwards in one piece to the full height of the casemate's "roof" – it used a separate forward plate to form its casemate structure atop the hull roof, and mount its anti-tank gun. The resulting vehicle featured very heavy armor.
The name Hetzer (German for "chaser") was never an official or suggestive name used for this vehicle. It was the designation for a related prototype, the E-10.The Škoda factory for a very short period confused the two names in its documentation and the very first unit equipped with the vehicle thus for a few weeks applied the incorrect name until matters were clarified.
Kanonenjagdpanzer 1-3. The first prototypes of the Kanonenjagdpanzer were built in 1960 by Hanomag and Henschel for West Germany and by Mowag for Switzerland, [1] based on the experience of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War, the Kanonenjagdpanzer being a development of the Jagdpanzer IV. [2]
The 12.8 cm Pak 44 (Pak from German Panzerjägerkanone "anti-tank gun") is a German anti-tank gun used during World War II.It was designed as a result of experiences on the Eastern front in 1943.