Name that tank!

Hmmm looking at the weapon and muzzle brake I would go for a Pzkpfw IV Ausf G

 

Sorry, but alas no

 

Did not think it would be so simple, wrong muzzle brake for the earlier version though. Time to ponder.

 

Think HARD and look at .... post 2216

 

ok shot in the dark how about, pzkpfw IV ausf j? with a modified muzzle brake?

 

Pzkpfw IV Ausf J had three return rollers not four, no turret side vision or pistol ports.
Ausf F1 short 75mm
Ausf F2 Long 75mm with ball muzzle brake
Ausf H No side vision or pistol ports for the driver and signaller
No extra radio antennae for the Panzerbeobachtungswagen version

So unless it is an Ausf F2 with a later muzzle brake (or I am imagining that it is not a ball type) I am stumped.

 

ok, my bad.

 

TOS knows what it is and leccy your getting there

 

Oh no, not that freaky thing, Darren!

 

Yes Ulrich that one which catches alot of people out but does sort the men from the boys

 

Funny Darren, i believe that thing pushed me back into being a boy!

 

Getting your own back eh,
I even looked at the Panzer III Ausf B and going exotic with the Panzer IV Ausf G with Hydrostatic drive. All wrong hull shapes though.

 

And there was a PzIII version as well!

 

Here's a pic of the PzIII, That must make it easy
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You trying to confuse me, that appears to be one of the Pzkpfw III fitted with the Pak 38 50mm weapon, demonstrated to Hitler on the 4th April 1942. As far as I was aware that never went into production (Muzzle brake was never fitted to the Kwk 'tank' version).

Always happy to learn some new things though.

 

These are wise words

 

Ask a few questions!

 

Look at the main armament

 

Looked at the main weapon and what pictures I have for a Panzer IV

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Here is a picture of a trials Panzer IV with a Kwk 39 L/60 50mm. Like the Panzer III equipped with this weapon it has no muzzle brake as opposed to the Pak 39 version which does.

Looked to see for other versions of the KwK 39 L/60 50mm and found this from a Puma but even though it has a muzzle brake it still does not look right.
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The main weapon was experimental, but due to the lack of tungsten-carbide the experiment was stopped