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The Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) was an assault gun produced by Germany during World War II.It was the most-produced fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle, [4] and second-most produced German armored combat vehicle of any type after the Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track.
StuG III Ausf. D as received by Jon Phillips in May 2013. StuG III Ausf. D, chassis number 90678 was captured by the British Army at El Alamein in the North African Campaign and was taken to the UK for tests and study.
About a 1,000 out of the 1,687 vehicles of the Panzer IV Ausf. G mounted the L/43 with a double baffle muzzle brake. The StuG III with the L/43 gun was designated as Ausf. F. of which only 120 were equipped with the L/43 (the remaining 246 having the longer L/48 version). All StuG III production runs through Ausf. F/8 to G mounted the longer L/48.
An early version of the Sturmgeschütz (StuG III Ausf.C/D). Sturmgeschütz (abbreviated StuG) meaning "assault gun" was a series of armored fighting vehicles used by both the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS formations during the Second World War (1939–1945).
Sturmgeschütz III ausf A-E (StuG III, Sd.Kfz. 142) - Sturmgeschütz III. Assault gun armed with 75 mm L/24 on Panzer III chassis; StuG III ausf F-G - Sturmgeschütz 40. Assault gun armed with 75 mm L/43 or L/48 on Panzer III chassis (Sd.Kfz. 142/1) Sturmhaubitze 42 (StuH 42, Sd. Kfz. 142/2). StuG III with 105 mm light field howitzer
Sd.Kfz. 141 - Panzer III medium tank with 37 mm or 50 mm L/42 main gun Panzer III Ausf. F (Sd.Kfz. 141) Sd.Kfz. 141/1 - Panzer III medium tank with 50 mm L/60 main gun) Sd.Kfz. 141/2 - Panzer III medium tank with short-barrelled 75 mm KwK 37 main gun; Sd.Kfz. 142 - StuG III assault gun with 75 mm L/24 main gun
From March 1942, new variants of the Panzer IV and StuG III had a derivative of the 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun, the longer-barreled 7.5 cm KwK 40. [1] When older Panzer IVs were up-gunned, their former KwK 37 guns were reused to arm later Panzer III tanks and other infantry support vehicles. In 1943, depleted stocks and demand for the Panzer ...
The primary German assault gun was the Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III). At about the same time (March 1942) as the howitzer-like KwK 37 gun was dropped from the Panzer IV's use, its Sturmkanone equivalent in the StuG III up to that time, was likewise replaced with a longer-barreled, high-velocity dual-purpose 75 mm gun that had also been derived ...