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Jagdpanther Platoon

By: Battlefront Miniatures

Type: Miniatures Box Set

Product Line: Flames of War - WWII - German - Box Sets & Miscellaneous

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Last Stocked on 11/6/2024

Product Info

Title
Jagdpanther Platoon
Sub-category
Publish Year
2011
Dimensions
8.5x6x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147443729
MFG. Part #
BFMGBX41
Type
Miniatures Box Set
Age Range
14 Years and Up

Description

The success of the 8.8cm gun had a direct influence on the design of German tanks and tank-hunters. The 8.8cm PaK43 was too big to be useful on a Panzer III or IV chassis, so German industry sought a compromise to upgrade the slow maneuvering heavies such as the Ferdinand assault gun and Königstiger heavy tank.

The Army Weapons Office’s answer was the Jagdpanther (Hunting Panther, pronounced yahkt pan-terr). This placed an 8.8cm PaK43 on a Panther tank to combine the firepower of the big gun with the higher mobility of the Panther.

Initial designs called for the Jagdpanther to be based on the Panther II, but once the Panther II was scrapped in favor of upgrading the standard Panther, the Jagdpanther changed to that chassis instead.

The main result was the lowering of the front armor to 80mm armor instead of the intended 100mm of the Panther II. The first Jagdpanther tank-hunters sported Zimmerit protective coating, but those produced after 8 September 1944 did not.

The Jagdpanther in Flames Of War

The Jagdpanther tank-hunter is equipped with the deadly 8.8 PaK43 gun, able to destroy any Allied tank. It is bolstered with thick frontal armor—a radical departure from earlier tank-hunters in the German arsenal like the various Marders.

You can field the 654. Schwere Panzerjägerabteilung equipped with the Jagdpanther in Flames Of War using Earth & Steel (page 122).