Description

The. Panzerkampfwagen iv. Was developed as a 20-ton class medium support tank by krupp-grusion and over 12,000 units of. Pz. Kpfw. Iv. Were produced from october 1937 to the end of the war as a prime tank

Panzerkampfwagen iv ausf. C were produced using (3. Serie/b. W. ) fgst. Nr. 80301. 80440. As with the ausf. A through e were armed with a short 7. 5cm tank gun and mg34 in the turret. In the ausf. B and c, a vision port and a pistol port replaced the machine gun and its ball mount in the superstructure front plate. The superstructure front plate was made from a single straight plate with the driver. S visor, radio operator. S visor in the same flat plane. An outer armored mantle was bolted to the turret front plate of the ausf. B & c, over the internal gun mantle, covering the gaps between the internal gun mantle and the front wall of the turret

Only 134 of panzerkampfwagen iv ausf. C were completed from october 1938 to august 1939. In august 1939, six of the 3. Serie/b. W. Chassis assembled and conversion to bridge-laying tanks.