Most often times, the hulls were of tank systems that had passed their prime as true tank systems and found new life as dedicated tank destroyers.Īfter the war's end in 1945, Germany had no need for their own standing army with the country now divided between the Allies and the Soviet Union in an 'East meets West' fashion. Many designs were based on existing equipment availability and even included using captured equipment from the Polish and French armies as the war wore on. They first mounted a proven 75mm anti-tank gun on a medium tank chassis and used an open turret configuration that sported a three sided armor shield arrangement for crew protection and maximum operating space. This is a limited-edition kit and production may be discontinued at any time.In World War 2 the German Army developed tank hunters, the 'Panzerjagers' or tank destroyers - a classification of armored vehicle that was specifically designed to counter the presence of enemy tanks through sheer firepower. This model comes disassembled and includes complete printed building instructions and comes packaged in a sealed box. Overall tan color perfect for late-WWII dioramasĪll Brickmania model kits are made of new-condition LEGO bricks.Three custom-printed national insignia elements.Includes one custom-printed minifigure with MP40 and Stahlh elm from BrickArms®.Fully-articulated Brickmania Track Link™ treads.The Marder III - SdKfz 139 - WWII German Tank Destroyer kit comes with the following features Engine: Praga water-cooled 6-cylinder gasolineĪdditional information about this Brickmania building kit:.Armament: 75mm PaK 36 (r) gun, 7.92mm machine gun.The Marder continued to be refined for the duration of the war. The Marder’s tall profile and thin armor made the tank destroyer an ideal target. The crew quarters were not enclosed, exposing the men to the elements and attacks from above, such as in an urban setting. The early Marder was often outfitted with captured Soviet anti-tank guns. The early Marder III was an anti-tank gun mounted on the Panzer 38(t) chassis. The Marder I and II were found to be inadequate against tanks like the T-34. When it was discovered that German anti-tank weapons had difficulty penetrating Soviet armor, the Marder was the temporary solution until better German tanks could be deployed to the Eastern Front. About the Marder III - SdKfz 139 - WWII German Tank Destroyer:ĭesigned as a stop-gap measure against Soviet tanks, the Marder (marten) series refers to a long line of lightly-armored tank destroyers.

Modern german tank destroyer