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OUT OF PRODUCTION, EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND, AND ONLY ONE LEFT!!! PLEASE NOTE:
This is an Out of Production and Hard to Find Dragon Armor Panther G diecast armor model. |
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| Dragon Armor Sd.Kfz. 171 Panther G Late Production, "Last Panther", Berlin Defense, April 1945, #60011 | • Type of Model: Pre-Assembled Diecast Model
• Year of Release: 2004
• Scale: 1:72 Scale
• Product Attributes: High Quality, Detailed, Accurate to Scale, Painted
• Type of Display Case: Black Plastic Base with Clear Acrylic Cover
Brand new, unopened, mint in box condition; PLEASE NOTE that all product packaging and boxes will have some shelf ware and may have minor imperfections like creases, folds, indentions or small tears in the boxes. |
| About the Panther Tank:
The Panther was a tank of Germany in World War II that served from mid-1943 to end of the war in Europe in 1945. It was intended as a counter to the T-34, and to replace the Panzer IV and III, though it served along with them and the heavier tanks until the end of the war. It is considered the best tank of WWII alongside the Soviet T-34/85.
Until 1944 it was designated as the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther and had the Ordnance inventory designation of Sd.Kfz. 171. On 27 February 1944, Hitler ordered that the tank only be known as Panther.
The Panther first saw mass action around the Kursk on 5 July 1943. Early tanks were plagued with mechanical problems: the track and suspension often broke and the engine was dangerously prone to over-heating and bursting into flames. Initially, more Panthers were disabled by their own failings than by enemy action. For example, the XLVIII Panzer Corps reported on July 10, 1943, that they had 38 Panthers operational and 131 awaiting repair, out of about 200 they had started with on July 5. Heinz Guderian, who had not wanted Hitler to order them into combat so soon, later remarked about the early Panther's performance in the battle: "they burnt too easily, the fuel and oil systems were insufficiently protected, and the crews were lost due to lack of training." However, Guderian also stated that the firepower and frontal armor were good. While many of the Panthers used at Kursk were damaged or suffered from mechanical difficulties, only a small number were lost for good and the tanks also achieved success, destroying 263 Soviet tanks. After Kursk, the problems of early Ausf. D models were fixed, making the Panther a formidable tank.
A German comparison of German tanks with the new (at the time) Russian T-34/85 and JS-II (122 mm), from March 23 of 1944, stated that: "The Panther is far superior to the T-34/85 for frontal fire (Panther Ausf G could penetrate frontal armor of T-34/85 at 2000m, while T-34/85 could penetrate frontal armor of Panther Ausf G at 500 m), approximately equal for side and rear fire, superior to the JS1 for frontal fire and inferior for side and rear fire." In 1943 and 1944, Panther was able to destroy any allied enemy tank in existence at ranges of 2,000 m, while in general veteran Panther crews reported 90 percent hit rate at ranges up to 1,000 m. According to US Army Ground Forces statistics, destruction of a single Panther was achieved after destruction of an average of 5 M4 Shermans or some 9 T-34s.
The F model never made it past the prototype stage. Many technological advances were designed to be incorporated into the F model like a gyrostabiliser, a stereoscopic rangefinder and it could be adapted to fit a variety of guns like the L/70, L/71 (King Tiger fame) and L/100. |
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