1/600 Scale WW2 German Army Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. D Medium Tank.
Contains 10 highly detailed tanks.
Contains:- 10x Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. D Medium Tanks
Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. D Medium Tank
The
Panzerkampfwagen IV (
PzKpfw IV), commonly known as the
Panzer IV, was a
German medium tank developed in the late 1930s and used extensively during the
Second World War. Its ordnance inventory designation was
Sd.Kfz. 161.
The Panzer IV was the most widely manufactured
German tank of the Second World War, with some 8,500 built. The Panzer IV was used as the base for many other fighting vehicles, including the
Sturmgeschütz IV assault gun,
Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, the
Wirbelwind self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, and the
Brummbär self-propelled gun.
The Panzer IV saw service in all combat theaters involving Germany and was the only German tank to remain in continuous production throughout the war. Upgrades and design modifications, intended to counter new threats, extended its service life. Generally, these involved increasing the Panzer IV's
armor protection or upgrading its weapons, although during the last months of the war, with Germany's pressing need for rapid replacement of losses, design changes also included simplifications to speed up the manufacturing process.
The Panzer IV was partially succeeded by the
Panther medium tank, which was introduced to counter the Soviet
T-34, although the Panzer IV continued as a significant component of German armoured formations to the end of the war. The Panzer IV was the most widely exported tank in German service, with around 300 sold to Finland, Romania, Spain and Bulgaria. After the war, Syria procured Panzer IVs from France and Czechoslovakia, which saw combat in the 1967
Six-Day War. 8,553 Panzer IVs of all versions were built during World War II, with only the
StuG III assault-gun/tank destroyer's 10,086 vehicle production run exceeding the Panzer IV's total among Axis armored forces.
The last of the 140 Ausf. Cs was produced in August 1939, and production changed to the Ausf. D; this variant, of which 248 vehicles were produced, reintroduced the hull machine gun and changed the turret's internal
gun mantlet to a 35 mm (1.38 in) thick external mantlet. Again, protection was upgraded, this time by increasing side armor to 20 mm (0.79 in). As the German
invasion of Poland in September 1939 came to an end, it was decided to scale up production of the Panzer IV, which was adopted for general use on 27 September 1939 as the
Sonderkraftfahrzeug 161 (Sd.Kfz. 161).
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