German word meaning "armored fighting vehicle

Principal Component of Blitzkrieg

With the help of the Stukas the panzers attack in may of 1940 in only 2 months:

Defeats in Alamein and Stalingrad.

After the battle of Kursk was showed that the Panzer had lost their offensive superiority Last Blitzkrieg was in the Battle of Bulge

By 1944 Germans had 19,000 blinded vehicles including 8,300 Panzers

Allies had 51,200 tanks by 1944

Wasnt a combat vehicle, but an introduction to the industry and the army with the tank About1.867 tanks were constructed

Panzer I modified: Model used in the Army during the Spanish Civil War.

Armed with a 20 mm cannon and before the war 1223 were built.
Panzer II: flamethrower tank. Marder II: Panzer II chassis with a barrel length of 75 mm Wespe: Panzer II chassis with a 105 mm

LTvz-38

Marder 138: with a cannon Pak 40 of 7,5 cm Marder 139: with a a Russian cannon of76,2 mm

Was designed as a medium tank with a fast 37 mm cannon The Panzer III was the first tank with turret for three people

Panzer III: armed with 37 mm L/45 gun Panzer III: armed with cannon L/42 or L/60 50 mm

The Panzer IV was bigger and heavier, and with a larger caliber gun.

Wirbelwind: four Flak 38 guns of 20 mm L/112.5 an armored turret of Panzer IV chassis Ostwind: with an anti-aircraft gun Flak 43 L/89 37 mm armored turret on a Panzer IV chassis

The Panzer V Panther was a medium tank, the German response to the Soviet T-34

1941 Hitler ordered the companies MAN, Daimler-Benz, Porsche and Henschel to design a new heavy tank

Porsche model was the winner but Henschel was better.

A heavy Tank armed with a cannon L/71 of 88 mm. Had a defensive purpose in the occidental front.