Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles Image thread.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Interesting fact, the last of these IVs were knocked out trying to take the road bridge over Drava river in Dravograd on the 12th and 13th of May 1945



But they never had enough of them

StuG was one of the most common German AFV's of the war. :V

 

[PsihoKekec]

And still there were not enough of them for their needs, hence all the Marders (also not enough of them).

 

[ThatZenoGuy]

And still there were not enough of them for their needs, hence all the Marders (also not enough of them).

Marders were built for AT purposes, hence the long gun. StuG's were built for infantry support which is why they had the snub gun.
Of course later on the StuG got a long-gun too, but it's purpose was primarily as a self propelled infantry gun rather than a self propelled AT gun. Semantics I know, but that's how they used them.
The 'self propelled AT gun' was more jagdpanzer IV and Hetzer.

 

[ATP]

Why would they need that when they had plenty of other Panzers, including PZ4's which had far better cannons?

They need them in panzer division,not supporting infrantry.

Germans had already designed the StuG III for that purpose. Also, they found uses for their captured French tanks - airbase defence, anti-partisan duty(a Renault R35 will go a lot of places in the Balkans that are beyond heavier tanks). Lastly, the limitations of those one-man turrets were really big - it would have been a pain to integrate those in German first- or second-line units.

Not enough stugs, and french tanks would be good enough to help infrantry take trenches.

 

[DarthOne]

Marders were built for AT purposes, hence the long gun. StuG's were built for infantry support which is why they had the snub gun.
Of course later on the StuG got a long-gun too, but it's purpose was primarily as a self propelled infantry gun rather than a self propelled AT gun. Semantics I know, but that's how they used them.
The 'self propelled AT gun' was more jagdpanzer IV and Hetzer.

DID SOMEONE SAY HETZER?