All G models have this side armor, late or early. There are other differences like the lower glacis thickness (50mm instead of 60mm), and the roof armor of both the hull and turret.
The reason this is an early G model is because the chin mantlet was not done when Gs started coming out of the factory. Only later on did chin mantlets start to be added to tanks.
“At the same time a new gun mantle was gradually introduced. It had a ‘chin’ guard to stop enemy armor piercing shells ricocheting off the bottom of the mantel and penetrating the roof of the chassis and killing the driver or radio operator. When allied troops inspected the M.N.H. Panther production factory at the end of the war they found turrets still being produced with the older curved gun mantel with out the ‘chin’ guard.”
+1, would be funny in sim
+1
Everyone else has captured vehicles; the British need theirs, even more so the big-name ones like this.
Panther “Dauphiné” was captured in August 1944, a month before the chin mantlet started being introduced. It is an early Panther G.
And what you quoted doesn’t prove they removed the chin mantlet late in the war. Just that they were still producing early mantlets.
Sure, why not? It could make for a fun Premium tank with a neat little bit of history. A +1 from me!
Very similar to the French premium
1+
Sure if it gets a cool skin
Seeing as my Deserter suggestion can’t be commented on since being passed to the devs, this seems like the best place to post this.
Cheers to Ed Francis for finding this footage of the second British captured and combat operated Panther - Deserter
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060055366
After being captured and used in combat, Deserter was withdrawn from frontline service as it was too large to use allied bridges to proceed up the Italian front line. The above clips shows Deserter in its later comparative mobility trials against Shermans and Churchills. Fantastic footage.
No, because the british don’t really need it, other original british vehicles could be added in it’s place, and “fullfill it’s job” in terms of armor and firepower, like the Challenger I stage I or what ever this thing is
+1
Unlike for example the Tiger 131 this was actually used in combat and so it would be a good addition as a premium or event/BP vehicle
Same, +1 would be a great addition to Britain, would love to see this one day. (I never touched the british TT)
Also, unlike 131, Cuckoo isn’t affected by copyright (reminder: Bovington copyrighted Tiger 131’s entire design).
Tiger 131 will honestly have to be permitted to be in the game; chances are they would if asked.
Man how you gonna copyright what is essentially stolen property 😭
Aye, WoT managed it. Gaijin will probably just have to buy a license to include it in-game and pay Bovington royalties to use the name and tank.
Bovington managed it somehow; for all intents and purposes, Tiger 131 in its entirety is property of Bovington, including its design and image.
Of who? Henschel & Son; Henschel Works doesn’t exist anymore; it was merged and then dissolved, and Wegmann & Co., which produced the turret, was absorbed by KNDS. Becoming a Subsidiary and no longer exists. Also, the people who designed and produced it are long dead.
So who would you give the parts, hull, and turret to?
The ones long gone? Or the ones still maintaining the bloody thing?
Cause if you gave it to those no longer on this plane of existence. It will look like this after some time.
Either everyone gets captured vehicles or nobody gets any, if the UK gets this the US should get the Tiger 2H
and this
Knowing that the ones who used those were known as the Rag-Tag Circus, aka the 83rd Infantry Division. Everything they captured was serviced.
