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.

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.

The " open-topped " design format of the Panzerjäger vehicles was succeeded by the Jagdpanzer '(" hunting tanks ") which mounted the gun in true casemate-style superstructures, completely enclosing the crew compartment in armor that would usually be integral to the hull.

The Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) fitted into the lighter category of German tank destroyers that began with the Panzerjäger I, continued with the Marder series and ended with the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ).

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.

: 28 well preserved German tanks are shown, including several Marder, Panzer II, Panzer III, Panzer IV, Tiger I, Tiger II, Jagdpanzer and Panther

The Sturmgeschütz III used a new casemate-style superstructure with an integrated design similar to the later Jagdpanzer.

The 75 mm PaK 39 L / 48 gun of the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) was a modified version of the 75 mm StuK 40 L / 48 used in the StuG III and StuG IV assault guns.

F. As the Jagdpanzer IV was already being produced by Vomag, the StuG IV may not have materialized, had it not been for the major disruption of StuG III production, and the scarce supply of the 7. 5 cm L / 70 gun designated for the Jagdpanzer IV.

As one of the casemate-style turretless Jagdpanzer ( tank destroyer, literally " hunting tank ") designs, it was developed against the wishes of Heinz Guderian, the inspector general of the Panzertruppen, as a replacement for the Sturmgeschütz III ( StuG III ).

" A " stands for Alkett, a manufacturer of the StuG III, that was ordered to redesign the Jagdpanzer IV superstructure to be mounted onto a standard Panzer IV chassis.

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 ".

* Also featured: Panzer I, II, III, IV, Stug III, Panther, Tiger I, Tiger II, Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ), Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger, SdKfz 251, FT-17, Char B1, Somua S35, Cruiser Mk III, Comet I, Matilda Mk I, Matilda II, Churchill Mk VII, TOG2, A33 Excelsior, A38 Valiant, T14 Assault tank, Ram Cruiser Mk II, M24 Chaffee, M3 Grant, M4 Sherman, Sherman Firefly, M10 Tank Destroyer, M48 Patton, M26 Pershing, T17 Staghound, Hamilcar glider, DUKW, SU-76, T-26, T-34, KV-1, SU-100, L3 / 33 LF, M13 / 40

* Vollkettenaufklarer 38 ( t ) Kätzchen A fully tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier based on the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ).

* Surviving Panzer IV variants-A PDF file presenting the Panzer IV variants ( Jagdpanzer IV, Hummel, Nashorn, Brummbär, StuG IV, Flakpanzer tanks and prototypes based on Pz IV ) still existing in the world

* Surviving Panzer IV variants-A PDF file presenting the Panzer IV variants ( Jagdpanzer IV, Hummel, Nashorn, Brummbär, StuG IV, Flakpanzer tanks and prototypes based on Pz IV ) still existing in the world

* Surviving Panzer IV variants-A PDF file presenting the Panzer IV variants ( Jagdpanzer IV, Hummel, Nashorn, Brummbär, StuG IV, Flakpanzer tanks and prototypes based on Pz IV ) still existing in the world

* Jagdpanzer 38 ( t )— sometimes known as " Hetzer ", based on the Panzer 38 ( t ) tank

* Jagdpanzer IV — based on the Panzer IV tank

* Surviving Panzer IV variants-A PDF file presenting the Panzer IV variants ( Jagdpanzer IV, Hummel, Nashorn, Brummbär, StuG IV, Flakpanzer tanks and prototypes based on Pz IV ) still existing in the world.

* Surviving Panzer IV variants-A PDF file presenting the Panzer IV variants ( Jagdpanzer IV, Hummel, Nashorn, Brummbär, StuG IV, Flakpanzer tanks and prototypes based on Pz IV ) still existing in the world

As production of the Panzer IV was about to be terminated further work was underway to change to the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) chassis which was in turn based on the Panzer 38 ( t ).

These led to better protected tank destroyers, built on medium tank chassis such as the Jagdpanzer IV and Jagdpanther.

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.

Early versions of the Jagdpanzer IV carried two standard ( no modification made ) MG 42's on both sides of the gun mantlet / glacis, firing through a ball slot which was protected by an armored cover ( with the MG 42 retracted ) when not in use.

Later version Jagdpanzer IV's carried only one MG 42 on the left side.

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.

* Flakpanzer 38 ( t ) Kugelblitz Proposal to mount the turret from a Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz on a Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) chassis.

* Jagdpanzer IV = Tank Destroyer with 75 mm L / 48, later L / 70, gun on Panzer IV chassis ( Sd.

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.

It was thus intended to stop production of the Panzer IV itself at the end of 1944 to concentrate solely on production of the Jagdpanzer IV, but the Panzer IV was in production all the way until the end of the conflict along with Jagdpanzer IV.

He was killed by an American sniper while looking out of the hatch of his Jagdpanzer IV, on December 17, 1944 during the Ardennes Offensive in Belgium.