Comments on: Panther ultimate evolution – Panther Ausf.F

By: The “Turbopanther” – Panther Ausf.F mit Gasturbine | For The Record

Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:08:31 +0000

[...] assume it would be based on the Panther F chassis. I recently wrote about the Panther Ausf.F in an article, so if you are interested in details, I will refer you there, but basically, it’s a Panther [...]

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:50:23 +0000

Saved metal and weight for one. Anyways, a dense enough mesh ought to have much the same effect on the bullets and no difference regarding HEAT, which oughta been something of a headache by that point – “skirts” were after all used when fighting the Democracies too, and those had tossed AT rifles a while ago but issued copious amounts of bazookas and PIATs instead.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:47:15 +0000

Given that they still had to be shifted around from one trouble spot to another, and the fact the RAF and USAAF were doing quite a number on the railroad infrastructure, I’d say it was kind of a problem there too.
Just a hunch but I’d guess the practical reason for leaving the final drive design alone, no matter what its problems, oughta been the desire to avoid production interruptions and the overriding need to churn out materiel to replace losses.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:42:51 +0000

IIRC the French postwar assessments also had something to say about turret weight distributions and “rotatability” on inclines…
BTW weren’t most others using electric engines for traverse? Not something the Germans would’ve been big on given their chronic copper shortages granted.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:39:50 +0000

That “many” would amount to the two AMX-13s pretty much. And it’s not like human loaders seem to have any problems wrangling big shells out of racks and into breeches in spite of the tanks going full tilt in rough terrain and probably taking hits to boot…

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:34:03 +0000

There’s kind of *reasons* the Soviets started looking into rear-casemate designs.

By: Zatiria

Zatiria — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:04:07 +0000

Where did the stock Panther II turret come from? The one with the bulge in the roof?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:37:10 +0000

Played around some more. Used a tiger 2 drawing for the gun with the breach (also from Doyle) and tried to scale it correctly (kinda messy so no guarantees) but looks like the breach fits too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:31:48 +0000

Harder to tell. Would need an image of the complete gun in scale. Also knowing the exact pivot point would be nice. But just by eyballing it might actually fit too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:30:58 +0000

No it is an awesome tech that makes it posible to shoot at targets under hill.