Captured Soviet anti-tank guns were mounted on modified Panzer II chassis, producing the Marder II self-propelled anti-tank gun.

They created many examples of lightly armored self-propelled anti-tank guns using captured French equipment ( example Marder I ), their own obsolete light tank chassis ( Marder II ), or ex-Czech chassis ( Marder III ).

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.

Therefore the somewhat ad hoc design, Ferdinand supplanted the previous light tank destroyers, like Marder II and Marder III, in the offensive role.

* Marder II = 75 mm Pak 40 gun on Panzer II chassis ( Sd.

* Marder II = captured Russian 76. 2 mm gun on Panzer II Ausf.

* Marder II ( built on the Panzer II chassis )

A Waffen-SS Marder II and its crew somewhere in Southern Russia during the Wehrmacht's raid into the Caucasus.

The Marder II came in two major versions.

The first version Marder II ( Sd. Kfz.

Alkett and Wegmann produced 201 Marder II ( Sd.

The second version Marder II ( Sd. Kfz.

This Marder II had a redesigned ( widened ) fighting compartment and used the German 75 mm Pak 40 anti-tank gun.

FAMO, MAN and Daimler-Benz produced 576 Marder II ( Sd. Kfz.

An example of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marder III and Hetzer vehicle, that were very different in spite of being based on the same chassis: Marder was straightforwardly an anti-tank gun on tracks whereas Hetzer traded some firepower ( its Pak 39, designed to operate within the confines of a fully-armored fighting compartment, fires the same projectiles from a reduced propellant charge compared to Marder's Pak 40 ) for better armor protection and ease of battlefield concealment.

The most common mounting was a German anti-tank gun on the Czech Panzer 38 ( t ) chassis to produce the Marder III.

One was created for the film using the chassis of a Czech-built Panzer 38 ( t ) tank similar to the construction of the original Marder III ; the other was a cosmetically modified Swedish SAV m / 43 assault gun, which also used the 38 ( t ) chassis.

The American Point System was proposed by taylor porter of Marder Luse & Company in Chicago in the 1870s, and his point system used the same method of size division as Fournier ’ s ; viz.

The other alternate vehicle was the West German Marder which mounted a 20 mm autocannon, two 7. 62 mm MGs, relatively strong steel armor, and full CBR protection.

In late 1993, the partners hired independent cartoonist Larry Marder to act as " executive director " for the publisher ; Valentino quipped in interviews that Marder's job was literally to " direct the executives " ( i. e. the Image partners ).

Marder also co-wrote the Dreamworks film Bee Movie, with Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, and Andy Robin, which was released on November 2, 2007.

It was better armored than the lightly armoured earlier Panzerjäger Marder and Nashorn with a sloped armour front plate of sloped back at 60 degrees from the vertical ( equivalent in protection to about ), carried a reasonably powerful gun, was mechanically reliable, small and easily concealed.

Because of the fully enclosed armor, it was 5 tonnes heavier than the Marder III.

* 2003: Rabbi Janet Marder was named the first female president of the Reform Movement's Central Conference of American Rabbis ( CCAR ) on March 26, 2003, making her the first woman to lead a major rabbinical organization and the first woman to lead any major Jewish co-ed religious organization in the United States.

Image Comics Executive Director Larry Marder is quoted as saying " He was making an increasing number of business decisions that were counterproductive to being a business partner ".

This variant was similar to Marder tank destroyer series in that it was a weakly armored, open-topped antitank vehicle that could not engage enemy armor head to head, and it was a stop-gap measure.

The result was the Marder series, which were armed with either the new 7. 5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank guns or captured Soviet 7. 62 cm F-22 Model 1936 field guns, large numbers of which had been acquired early in the war.

* John Marder – Chief Operating Officer at the Norton Plant in Burbank, California ; Also oversaw the production project for the N-22 widebody that was involved in the incident.

The vehicle was developed by a German and Argentine team of engineers, and was based on the chassis of the German Marder infantry fighting vehicle.

It was decided to use the hull of the German Marder armored personnel carrier, and the chassis was strengthened to support the increased weight of the TAM.

Examples include the U. S. M901 ITV ( Improved TOW Vehicle ) and the Norwegian NM142, both on an M113 chassis, several Soviet ATGM launchers based on the BRDM reconnaissance car, the British FV438 Swingfire and FV102 Striker and the German Raketenjagdpanzer series built on the chassis of the HS 30 and Marder IFV.

Examples include the German Marder and Puma, the Chinese ZBD-97, the Soviet / Russian BMP-3, the Indian Abhay IFV, the Yugoslavian BVP M-80, the Canadian LAV III, the British Warrior, the American M2 Bradley, the Spanish Pizarro / ASCOD, the Italian Dardo, the South African Ratel, the French AMX-10P and VBCI, the Swedish Combat Vehicle 90 and the Dutch YPR-765 AIFV.

A Marder ( IFV ) | Marder of the German Army fires a MILAN anti-tank missile.

Some vehicles mount more machine guns ; for example on the German Marder, one machine gun fires from the rear of the vehicle, and the Russian BMP-3 has two machine guns mounted in the hull facing forward.

Its introduction prompted the development of similar vehicles in Western armies, such as the West German Marder and American M2 Bradley.

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 ).

The two main crewable vehicles depicted in the original Steel Beasts are the German Leopard 2A4 and the American M1A1 Abrams, known as M1A1 ( HA ), However there are numerous NATO vehicles including M2 Bradleys and the Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles, NATO Support vehicles include the HMMWV and the M113 APC.

German Army KFOR soldiers and a Marder ( IFV ) | Marder infantry fighting vehicle in southern Kosovo in 1999

The Marder ( German for " marten ") is a German infantry fighting vehicle operated by the German Army as the main weapon of the Panzergrenadiere ( mechanized infantry ) from the 1970s through the present day.

Development of the Marder ran from January 1960, when the first development contracts were issued, to 7 May 1971, when the first production vehicles were given to the German army.

The first production Marder 1 was handed to the German army on 7 May 1971.

The Marder 1A3 is the currently most common version of this system, and is in service with the German Bundeswehr, the Marder 1A4 differs from the 1A3 only by the use of a cryptography-capable radio-set.

** Marder 1 A2 ( 1984 – 1991 ): Between 1984 and 1991, all German Marder 1's were upgraded to A2 standard, this included substantial modification of the suspension, fuel tanks, cooling system and water-jet cleaning system.