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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.
This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles, from their inception from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, to the split between West Germany and East Germany, through their reunification and into modern-day Germany.
The compression ratio was 6.8:1. As was typical practice for Maybach, the engine used a tunnel crankshaft . Late in the war the HL234 upgrade with fuel injection was recommended by the Entwicklungskommission Panzer for use in the underpowered Tiger II tank.
Though the Panzer III was conceived as the main battle tank of the Wehrmacht, the Wehrmacht did not anticipate being at war with Europe's major powers in 1939, and few were available at the start of the war. [12] Excluding Czech-built tanks, on 1 September 1939 the invasion of Poland was undertaken with the German armoured force of 3,195 tanks ...
V-12 Maybach HL230 P30, developing 700 PS. [a]This is an incomplete list of gasoline engines designed by Maybach AG, manufactured by Maybach and other firms under licence, and fitted in various German tanks (German: Panzerkampfwagen, French: chars blindés) and half-tracks before and during World War II.
IV SS Panzer Corps (formerly VII SS Panzer Corps) V SS Mountain Corps; VI SS Army Corps (Latvian) VII SS Panzer Corps (see above ↑ IV SS Panzer Corps) VIII SS Cavalry Corps (planned in 1945 but not formed) IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) X SS Corps (made up of disbanded XIV SS Corps headquarters) XI SS Panzer Corps; XII SS Corps
Chi-He (name for the Type 1 Chi-He) Chi-Nu (name for the Type 3 Chi-Nu) Chieftain (popular name for the FV4201 Chieftain) Ch'onma-ho main battle tank (North Korea;modern) CM-21 armoured personnel carrier based on the M113 (Taiwan; Cold War) Cobra (popular name for the ACEC Cobra) Combat Engineer Vehicle (program name for the M728 CEV)
The idea of a Bergepanther came about in 1943 because of problems with the recovery of heavy and medium tanks. The development was carried out by MAN . The half-track vehicles used up to then for recovery (e.g. Sd.Kfz. 9 ) were rarely able to successfully recover a Panther or a Tiger ; towing with another Tiger or Panther was strictly forbidden ...