I looking for a jagdpanther with IR.
Photos, info and sketches.
It will all help.

Till today there's no evidence, no photo proof of jagdpanthers being equipped with IR devices.

Hiya,

I agree with Pawel...I've build one some time ago and did some research on the net but I didn't find any, so I used some artistic license:



I hope to see your build over here soon

Cheers

Hi Tim,

I'm afraid that I have to agree with Pawel and Wouter - There's no evidence of any actual experimental or operational installation of the IR systems into the Jagdpanther.

However, at the end of the war, there were several hundred unfinished Jagdpanther hulls already shipped to the assembly plants, so it's very clear that had the war continued, the Jagdpanther would have been a major player. Undoubtably, the Germans would have installed their IR systems into it.

So, a "Panzer 46" project like Wouter's is plausible, I think.

Here's some of the best info available on-line for the IR Panther:

Panther El Mito: Night Vision Systems

It's in Spanish, but a few minutes on any on-line translation site will take care of that for you. I thought the periscopic IR scope was particularly interesting.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas for how the Germans might have actually gone about installing IR into the Jagdpanther.

Thank you for the help.