One of the more ridiculous field mods Germany ended up building during the war: a Panther or Bergepanther with an improvised superstructure and StuK 40 cannon seemingly ripped straight from an assault gun.
Newsreel footage proves this to be a legitimate creation, with a few seconds allowing us to see the tank’s rear, which sits just behind the Tiger.
Here is the Tiger from the opposite angle, although unfortunately the StuG is blocking view of the Panther.
This vehicle seems to have been abandoned in the town of Baltiysk in Russia after the battles in April of 1945.
7,5 cm StuK 40 auf Bergepanther : Germany (DEU)
Baltiysk/Pillau, April 1945. : exarchmk — LiveJournal
Panzer Fakten | I’m thinking about doing this conversion | Facebook
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Czech Škoda Š-III-6 (No known pictures of Škoda Š-III-8 exist)
Strictly Czechoslovak vehicle, only being tested by Germans, nothing else German about it.
Czech resistence modification mounting 2 or 3 MG151s on Sd.Kfz.4
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Krupp Protze mit MG 151 Drilling
Krupp Protze mit 3,7 cm PaK 35/36
This Protze as improvised armour.
Krupp Protze mit 2 cm FlaK
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Field modified vehicles are the best they have a lived in feel as there was a need to do these changed. ERA put that on steroids for better or worse.
Oh sorry, I missed those. I’ll give them a read!
Wicked!
No way 😮
So the front is definitely modeled wrong in the game. As the front and the gun mantlet are too wide.
While the hull in WT is modeled after a Pz II L but it shouldn’t have the fake driver viewports and the sides should angle inwards.
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Hard to tell yes. But maybe also production differences between them (i think 2?) And i highly doubt they will remodel it in game.
Also, in game its modeled on an Ausf.H. The sides are anlged slightly. Tho yeah the fake drivers viewport its incorrect. Tho could also be an early thing that was later on removed, like with the Sturer Emil and the StuG III Ausf.F L/41 prototype.
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RSO with 4,7 cm Pak Böhler
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If you find more photos of them, feel free to post them. There is a good chance of more photos of them, conciddering that 2 of 4 Drawings have photografic evidence of being build.
Along these 2 there was also a drawing of this:
Also
Gepanzertes Sd.Kfz.6 with 2 cm Gebirgsflak 38
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