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Turned out to be a German Jagdpanther and the muzzle of the 88 millimetre which these Jagdpanther carried and that muzzle seemed to come on and on across the ride forever and ever." Lord William Griffiths, 2nd Bn Welsh Guards: "And there silhouetted coming down the road behind us was just about the largest tank I'd ever seen. The best tank destroyer of the German army of the second world war. So instead of producing more and more turreted tanks as the war goes on instead, they make more and more of these tank destroyers, these Panzerjäger as they're called, and Hitler comes up with the idea of placing a heavy 88 millimetre gun on a Panther tank chassis, another really good really well-designed tank, and because it uses this proven design as the basis of everything else that's built up on top of it it becomes a very reliable gun platform. There's no real need for a tank to be able to fire in all directions at the same time because they're waiting for the Allies to come on to them. The Germans by the late stage in the war when these are deployed are on the strategic and tactical defensive. The idea for the tank destroyer principallyĬomes about in the German army because they are much easier to manufacture and cheaper to manufacture than turreted vehicles, much less moving parts. It's basedon the Panther chassis and is a tank destroyer, not a tank because it hasn't got a turret.
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So this is an Sd Kfz 173 Jagdpanzer tank which means 'hunting panther' in the literal translation, it was named by Hitler himself. The best tank destroyer of the German army of the Second World War. The Jagdpanther is probably the most impressive German tank destroyer design of the Second World War because it has that great combination of firepower with the PAK 43 88 millimetre gun and the proven Panther tank chassis which is reliable and also very well defended.