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The problem is named after its historical application by Allied forces in World War II to the estimation of the monthly rate of German tank production from very limited data. This exploited the manufacturing practice of assigning and attaching ascending sequences of serial numbers to tank components (chassis, gearbox, engine, wheels), with some ...
Number built—8,800 The Panzer IV was the workhorse of the German tank force during World War II. It saw combat in all land theaters, with the exception of the Pacific Theater, and was the only tank to remain in production for the entire war. The Panzer IV was originally intended to be an infantry-support tank.
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.
The Panzer IV was the most numerous German tank and the second-most numerous German fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle of the Second World War; 8,553 Panzer IVs of all versions were built during World War II, only exceeded by the StuG III assault gun with 10,086 vehicles.
It was not designed for use in combat; instead, the main battle tank of the German army was to be the Panzer III but delays in its development and manufacture led to the production of an interim vehicle, the Panzer II, [6] which began production the following year. It was not clear yet how tanks would be used in the next war, nor was it ...
The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (abbreviated Pz.Kpfw. V) with ordnance inventory designation: Sd.Kfz. 171, is a German medium tank of World War II.It was used in most European theatres of World War II from mid-1943 to the end of the war in May 1945.
German tank destroyers of World War II used fixed casemates instead of fully rotatable turrets to significantly reduce the cost, weight, and materials necessary for mounting large-caliber guns. A wooden mockup of the Jagdtiger presented to Adolf Hitler on 20 October 1943, seen here behind the Italian medium tank Carro Armato P 26/40
World War II Military unit A German heavy tank battalion ( German : "schwere Panzer abteilung ", short: "s PzAbt") was a battalion -sized World War II tank unit of the German Army during World War II , equipped with Tiger I , and later Tiger II , heavy tanks .