- Yes
- No
- 4.3
- 4.7
- 5.0
- 5.3
- other
- Sorry, but no
- Techtree independent
- Techtree foldered with Jagdpanzer 4
- Other ways
- No need for such a cool tank
Panzerjager 4 (late), composed by me and Chomusuke
History:
During ww2, the StuG 3 & StuG 4 were the most numerous self propelled guns in germany’s hands, but as the war went on those vehicles got outdated and the german army needed a new tank hunter with the requirement of 100mm front armour and was supposed to use the 7.5cm L/70 as the main armamant. The vehicle they came up was the Jagdpanzer 4 (aka as the Panzerjager 4). While the vehicles were produced, the L/70 guns were not ready, so the Jagdpanzerer 4’s were equipped with the L/48 guns. The Jagdpanzer 4 was built on the Panzer 4H chassis. Early Jagdpanzer 4’s (serial Fgst.Nr.320001 to 320300) has 60mm of front armour, and the late Jagdpanzer 4’s (serial Fgst.Nr.320301 onwards) has 80mm of sloped front armour. When the L/70 guns were avalable, they stopped the production of the Jagdpanser 4 and started producing the Panzer 4/70.
In-game place & playstyle:
The Jagdpanzer 4 (late) is different to the Jagdpanzer 4 (in-game) with 80mm of sloped armour instead of 60, the machine gun port left side of the tank was removed and is now a big flat sloped plate on the superstructure. This vehicle has a weak gun for its rank (only 140mm armour penatration) but has a very good front armour, and exceptional armour with the add on tracks armour. It can drive up to popular places and tank a lot of shots from the front, being the tanky vehicle in the team and let others pick off the enemies. This vehicle suits br 4.7 - 5.0 well.
Specifications:
Armour: Superstructure: 80mm (front) , 40mm (sides) , 30mm (rear) , 20mm (roof)
Hull: 80mm ( UPF ) , 50mm ( LFP ) , 30mm (side) , 20mm (rear) , 10mm (hull roof) , 20mm (floor front) , 10mm (floor rear)
Engine: Power: 296 hp at 3000 rpm (Maybach HL 120 TRM)
Speed: 40km/h , 6 foward speed & 1 reverse gear
Weight: 25.6 tons (without addon armour)
Armamant: Primary: 7.5 cm PaK 39 L/48 (same ammo used as the StuG 3 G) , 79 rounds of ammo, same traverse as Jagdpanzer 4.
Secondary: 1x MG 42 , 1200 rounds of ammo
dimentions:
Length: 8.5 m
Width: 3.17 m
Height: 1.85 m
pictures:
More information by Chomusuke1 down below in coment section :-)
Bibliography:
https://warspot.net/317-jagdpanzer-iv-the-best-stug
Thankyou for reading, sorry for bad english as it is not my first language.
Section by Chomusuke:
Again Thank Chomusuke for all these information.The Jagdpanzer IV F (Sd. Kfz. 162) was a tank destroyer developed during World War II and was based on the chassis of the Panzer IV. The main task of the Jagdpanzer IV was to defend against attacking enemy combat vehicles such as tanks and assault guns. In War Thunder, the current Jagdpanzer IV presently found in the game is a very early January 1944 example, which you can clearly see below:
Instead of depicting a standard, common, mainstream example produced during the peak of Jagdpanzer IV F production, Gaijin instead has decided to provide the German faction player with an extremely rare, early prototype example with early features such as the periscope mount found only on the second prototype of the Jagdpanzer IV (versuchs 2 {V2}), nose mounted spare tracks, two machine gun ports/openings, thinner frontal armor, thinner side armor, no schürzen, and a muzzle break. This complete lack of late improvements of any kind is a noticeable detriment to the combat effectiveness of the Jagdpanzer IV F in the game. In contrast to the SU-85 & SU-85M and their armor differences featured in this game, the German faction player has to make do with a extremely rare, early, single solitary prototype example of a Jagdpanzer IV in an extremely early configuration that is completely outclassed & inappropriate for late war maps & events/scenarios. Therefor, Gaijin should introduce a proper Jagdpanzer IV F example into this game, one produced during the peak of Jagdpanzer production (July 1944):
Main improvements and vehicle features of this July 1944 Jagdpanzer IV F over the rare one that is currently present in the game would be:
Spare track moved to rear hull
Spare road wheels moved to rear roof
Left machine gun port deleted
Inner gun mantlet base plate revised to reduce weight
Muzzle break removed
80 mm frontal superstructure & upper hull armor
40 mm side superstructure armor
Panzer IV J style radiator cap
Some more information:
This was a collab with Chomusuke, more than half of the credit and hard work goes to him, I was just the original composer of this suggestion.
