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Its name is short for Panzerkampfwagen I (German for "armored fighting vehicle mark I"), abbreviated as Pz.Kpfw. I. The tank's official German ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 101 ("special purpose vehicle 101"). [2] Design of the Panzer I began in 1932 and mass production began in 1934.
The Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. F was a design intended to modify the Panzer I tank to become a light tank with heavy and thick armor (~80mm) in order to assist the infantry in the attack operations. The initial order of 30 pieces was given on December 22, 1939, at, and also produced by the manufacturer Krauss-Maffei. But an additional order of ...
The Panzerkampfwagen I (PzKpfW I) was a light tank produced in Germany in the 1930s. The Panzer I was built in several variants and was the basis for a number of variants listed below. Designations
The Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. C, also known by its prototype name VK 6.01 [a], [2] was a German light tank from the Second World War. Although the Panzer I Ausf. C was formally designated as a modification of the Panzer I, it was actually a completely new vehicle [citation needed]. This variant has little similarity with earlier Ausf.
Leopard 2A5s of the German Army (Heer). This article deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German Army, the interwar and World War II tanks of the Nazi German Wehrmacht, the Cold War tanks of the West German and East German Armies, all the way to the present day tanks of the Bundeswehr.
A sIG 33 auf Panzerkampfwagen I in Greece in 1941. 36 vehicles were organized into independent schwere Infanteriegeschütz-Kompanie (mot.S.) ("self-propelled heavy infantry gun companies") numbers 701–706, assigned to Panzer divisions in the Battle of France [2] as follows: [3] Company 701, to the 9th Panzer Division
Panzerkampfwagen V (full title for the Panther tank) Panzerkampfwagen VI (full title for the VK30.01, VK36.01, Tiger I and Tiger II tanks) Panzerkampfwagen VII (full title for the Panzer VII) Panzerkampfwagen VIII (full name for the Panzer VIII Maus) Panzerkampfwagen 35(t) (full title for the Panzer 35(t) captured LT vz 35)
The Panzer I (Sd. Kfz. 101) was not intended as a combat vehicle but more to familiarise industry and the army with tanks. By the time production ended in 1937, 1869 Panzer I hulls had been produced, of which 1493 were fitted with turrets, and the rest were used as command or training vehicles.