Following the setbacks during the 1941 campaign in the Soviet Union, the Germans were in great need of finding a proper answer to the T34 and the KV tanks. They decided to go with two different solutions. One was to simply upgun vehicles already in production, for example, the Panzer IV and the StuG III. The other solution involved more modifications, chief among which was removing the turret or parts of the superstructure and adding a new fighting compartment onto an older vehicle, usually equipped with different variants of the 7.5 cm antitank gun, and sometimes even using some captured weapons. One such project was based on the Panzer 38(t) chassis and armed with the StuG III’s L/43 gun.

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An article by Marko Pantelic
Narrated by Mark Fairclough
Edited by Pavel Alexe