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Panzer III Ausf. G - Ausf F. with extra armour on the gun mantlet, late production armed with 5 cm KwK 38 L/42 main gun. [14] Panzer III Ausf. H - 5 cm KwK 38 L/42 as standard gun. Bolt-on armour added to front and rear hull (30 mm base + 30 mm plates). [9] Panzer III Ausf. I - A variant that was mentioned by Allied intelligence, but never existed.
Tank spaced armour has been fielded since the First World War, when it was fitted to the French Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks. The late variants of Panzer III had frontal spaced armour: a 20 mm thick face-hardened steel layer in front of the 50 mm thick main armour.
The suspension was a new design: six semi-detached road wheels per side, 660mm in diameter and mounted in pairs on double-bogies using leaf spring suspension. While these road wheels were larger than those of the production Panzer III or Panzer IV, the Panzer IV used a similar double-bogie leaf spring suspension design.
Nashorn (German: [ˈnaːsˌhɔɐ̯n], German for "rhinoceros"), initially known as Hornisse (German "hornet"), was a German Panzerjäger ("tank hunter") of World War II.It was developed as an interim solution in 1942 by equipping a light turretless chassis based on the Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks with the 8.8 cm Pak 43 anti-tank gun.
[citation needed] This armour was designed to provide protection from small arms fire and HE fragments; it was ineffective against heavier weapons. After the French campaign, additional spaced frontal armour plate was added to provide better protection. Armour was increased up to 30 mm (1.2 in) in the later Sd.Kfz. 234 series.
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Development started in 1941 under M.A.N., which took inspiration from their VK 30.02 design, creating an even more armored, albeit smaller, vehicle, with 80 mm (3.1 in) sloped frontal armor (at the time the Panther prototype only had 60 mm frontal armor).