Category: Germany
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Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E (Sd.Kfz. 181, Late Production)
Type: Heavy TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 2Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Ambivalent legend The Tiger first appeared on the battlefield in 1942 and outclassed all other contemporaries in regards to size, weight, firepower and armour protection. Feared by Allied soldiers for its toughness and praised by Nazi Germany‘s propaganda machine as a wonder weapon, this…
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Kampfpanzer 70
Type: Main Battle Tank/Experimental PrototypeNation: USA/GermanyPeriod: Cold WarLocation: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Another joint venture The KPz 70 was a German-American attempt to develop a shared next-generation main battle tank. This vehicle was intended to replace both countries‘ fleets of M48s, M60s and Leopards (which had not even entered service at that point). The design…
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Leopard 2A6MA3
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: Germany / Netherlands Period: Modern Location: Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany Setting the standard The Leopard 2 was developed in the 1970s as a replacement for the ageing Leopard 1. After the joint US/German MBT-70 program had been cancelled, both countries went separate ways – resulting in the M1 Abrams…
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Jagdpanzer 38 „Hetzer“ (Sd.Kfz. 138/2)
Type: Tank Destroyer Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne War Museum, Belgium Caught on the back foot Following their 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany’s troops were facing an ever-increasing number of enemy tanks on the Eastern Front. Craving for capable anti-tank vehicles, the Germans upgunned their Panzer IIIs, Panzer IVs…
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Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. G/H (Sd.Kfz. 161/2)
Type: Medium TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 2Location: Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany Steel siblings The first batch of the early Panzerkampfwagen IV was delivered to the Wehrmacht until 1938. With approximately 8,500 units built until 1945, it became the most produced German tank of World War 2. Like its companion, the very similar Panzerkampfwagen III, its…
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Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. L (Sd.Kfz. 141/1)
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Anti-tank tank The Panzerkampfwagen III was one of Nazi Germany’s two primary early war medium tanks. First conceived in 1934 with a 3.7 cm anti-tank gun, it was supposed to take on enemy armour while the slightly bigger Panzerkampfwagen IV…
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Sturmpanzerwagen A7V (Replica)
Type: Heavy TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK The first tank battle The A7V was deployed for the first time on 21 March 1918 at the Canal de Saint-Quentin in Northern France. The first tank-on-tank engagement in history would take place only a month later. On 24 April three German A7Vs…
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Sturmpanzerwagen A7V (Replica)
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 1 Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Difficult decisions The A7V was the first and only operational German tank of World War 1. When the first British Mark Is had been crawling across the battlefield on the Somme in September 1916, the German reaction (aside from a historical…
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Panzerkampfwagen V Panther Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz. 171)
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK The cost of war The Panther was a much larger and more modern machine than the Panzer IV, but at a price of 144,000 Reichsmark it cost only 30,000 more to build – while a Tiger I went for more…