Forget the Panther: The Cheap Box That Fired the Panther's Own Gun. Germany Built 1,208.

#ww2history #wwii #militaryhistory Forget the Panther: The Cheap Box That Fired the Panther's Own Gun. Germany Built 1,208. The Panzer IV/70 did something clever: it took the Panther's own long 75mm gun and bolted it into a cheap turretless box on the existing Panzer IV chassis - the legend's punch without the legend's price. It was the same trick the Nashorn had pulled with the 88. Germany built 1,208 of the long-gun version against just 415 Panther-hulled Jagdpanthers, roughly three cheap boxes for one premium cat. No reliable unit price for it survives, so this is the honest account run on the ratio: the gun it shared with the Panther, the production it out-built the Jagdpanther on, and the flaws that earned it the nickname Guderian's Duck. In this video: The gun that mattered: the same long 75mm the Panther carried, and what it did at 500 yards Why no reliable unit price survives - and how the flip runs on the production ratio instead 1,208 long-gun boxes against 415 Jagdpanthers - three cheap tank-killers for one premium hull Guderian's Duck: nose-heavy, 10 degrees of traverse, a cramped four-man box - the cheap workhorse's flaws Why Guderian and Speer opposed it - and the one thing it added over the cheaper StuG III Get the Panzer IV/70 Quick Facts PDF: [link to site] Explore more battles: [playlist link] Like and subscribe for more history. Tell us what to cover next below. #ww2 #jagdpanzeriv #guderiansduck #tankdestroyer #panther #germanarmor #militaryhistory #worldwar2