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Jagdpanzer and 38
The Panzer 38 ( t ) chassis was also used to make the Jagdpanzer 38 ' Hetzer ' casemate style tank destroyer.
The Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) ( Sd. Kfz.
The Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) was intended to be more cost-effective than the much more ambitious Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger designs of the same period.
The Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) succeeded the Marder III ( based on the same chassis ) in production from April 1944 ; about 2584 were built until the end of the war.
In the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ), the lower hull sides slope slightly to increase the available interior space and enable a fully enclosed fighting compartment.
The Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) equipped the Panzerjägerabteilungen ( tank destroyer battalions ) of the infantry divisions, giving them some limited mobile anti-armor capability.
By order of Adolf Hitler in November 1944, a number of Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) s were refurbished straight from the factory with a Keobe flamethrower and accompanying equipment instead of the normal gun.
Further variants were a Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) carrying the sIG 33 / 2 Howitzer, of which 30 were produced before the end of the war, and the Bergepanzer 38 ( t ), a light recovery vehicle of which 170 were produced.
Plans were made to produce other variants, including an assault gun version of the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) carrying a 105 mm StuH 42 main cannon, a version mounting the 7. 5 cm KwK 42 L / 70 gun from the Panther, and an anti-aircraft variant mounted with a flak turret.
Prototype were also developed for the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) Starr, this was a simplified version of the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) and also a step towards the E-10.
* Flammpanzer 38 ( t ) Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) modified with a Keobe flamethrower in place of the main gun.
Proposal made by Krupp to modify the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) with a superstructure to the rear to mount the gun, but no more development was done on this idea.
* Panzerjaeger 38 ( t ) Starr A simplified version of the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) which attached the 7. 5cm PaK 39 gun to the chassis, and fitted with a Tatra diesel engine.
* ST-I Post-war Czech designation for new manufactured or repaired Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ).
* G13 Post war version of the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) built for Switzerland, armed with a StuK 40 gun.
* Bergepanzer 38 ( t ) Light recovery vehicle, issued to units along with the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ).
* 15cm Schweres Infanteriegeschütz 33 / 2 ( Sf ) auf Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) chassis mounting a 15 cm sIG 33 in a superstructure.

Jagdpanzer and fitted
The Jagdpanzer designs followed on from the more lightly armoured Panzerjäger (" tank hunter ") designs which took an anti-tank gun and mounted it on top of a tank chassis with supplementary armour fitted around the gun crew.

Jagdpanzer and into
During World War II, most purpose-built German Wehrmacht and Soviet Red Army tank destroyers and self-propelled guns ( like the Wehrmacht's Sturmgeschütz III ) essentially had turretless, armored steel casemates mounted onto ( or built integrally into ) conventional main battle tank chassis to carry heavier, forward firing guns — the German vehicles were dubbed Jagdpanzer and Panzerjäger respectively, while their Soviet counterparts all bore an " SU -" or " ISU -" prefix, with the " SU -" prefix an abbreviation for Samokhodnaya Ustanovka in Russian, or " self-propelled installation " in their designations, much like the U. S. Army's designation for self-propelled artillery, and American tank destroyers, as a " Gun Motor Carriage ".

Jagdpanzer and German
The method of barrel change made the MG 42 unsuitable for secondary or co-axial armament on World War II era German tanks with the exception of the Jagdpanzer IV.
The most widely manufactured and deployed German tank of the Second World War, 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 weapon, and the Brummbär self-propelled gun.
Among the gallery ’ s objects are: a CF-101 Voodoo jet ; an M109 self-propelled howitzer ; an East German BMP infantry fighting vehicle ; tracked artillery from the First World War ; a Chieftain tank ; a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer ; an M3 Lee ; a fully restored Panzer V Panther tank ; a Panzer II ; a Leopard C1 tank ; searchlights ; rare motorcycles ; Field Marshal Alexander ’ s staff car ; a Canadian Iltis jeep and other vehicles with service in the Balkans during the 1990s ; a Molch midget submarine ; underwater mines ; a T-34 ; a Valentine tank recovered from a bog in 1990 ; an Italian L3 / 35 tankette ; and Weather Station Kurt, an automated weather station planted by a German U-boat on the coast of Labrador in the 1940s.
The Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) was one of the most common late-war German tank destroyers.
Like some other late-war German SPGs, the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) mounted a remote-control machine gun mount which could be fired from within the vehicle.
Development of the Panzerjäger designs begun before the war with the Sturmgeschütz-designated armored vehicles, the initial German turretless tanks to use completely closed-in armored casemates, and continued until 1944, resulting in such casemate-design vehicles as the Jagdpanzer (" Hunting tanks "), purpose-built heavy-gun tank destroyers.
Jagdpanzer ( JgPz ), German for " hunting tank ", is a name given to German self-propelled anti-tank guns.
They saw a poster featuring a German World War II tank, named Jagdpanzer ( literally " hunting tank " in German, but actually referring to what in English would be called a tank destroyer ) which they decided to name their band after.
During the breakout from Normandy American and British forces encountered the new generation of heavy German tanks and armored vehicles such as the Panther tank, Tiger I tank and Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer in quantity for the first time.
: 28 well preserved German tanks are shown, including several Marder, Panzer II, Panzer III, Panzer IV, Tiger I, Tiger II, Jagdpanzer and Panther

Jagdpanzer and tank
These led to better protected tank destroyers, built on medium tank chassis such as the Jagdpanzer IV and Jagdpanther.
As the war progressed, some Panzerjäger-Abteilungen were fully equipped with specialized tank destroyers known as Jagdpanzer (" hunting tank ") or Panzerjäger.
With this gun the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) was able to destroy nearly all allied or soviet tank types in service at long ranges ( except heavy tanks ) and its fully enclosed armor protection made it a safer vehicle to crew than the open-topped Marder II or Marder III series.
* Surviving Hetzers and G-13 tank destroyers-A PDF file presenting the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) Hetzer and G-13 tanks still existing in the world
On the attack, this Jagdpanzer was a first-strike vehicle, while in defence, they often comprised a mobile reserve used to blunt enemy tank assaults.
Since January 1944 Germany favored the production of the newer tank destroyer, the Jagdpanzer IV, which had a much thicker armor ( 60 mm frontal plate ) if a less powerful 7. 5 cm gun.
* Jagdpanzer — " hunting tank "; armoured casemate-style self-propelled tank destroyer.
* Panzerjäger — " tank hunter ( s )", anti-tank troops ; also used by extension for their self-propelled tank destroyers ( e. g., the Elefant ) until superseded by the Jagdpanzer (" hunting tank ") term.

Jagdpanzer and destroyers
Notable tank destroyers of World War II in the Jagdpanzer classification include:
Romania received several Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyers from the Red Army after the war ended.
The division was also equipped with Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyers, three prototype Wirbelwind flakpanzer vehicles, along with a number of 20 mm, 37 mm and 88 mm flak guns, Hummel, Wespe and sIG 33 self-propelled guns and regular towed artillery pieces.
The intention was to create several new light tank destroyers as a replacement for the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ), as well as a new family of Waffenträger armed with heavy anti-tank guns.

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