To clarify some information on this thread... this is an actual 1946 Panzer!

This Panther never saw action in WWII. It was built after the war from surplus factory parts for the British Army in 1946 for automotive evaluation. The Jagdpanther was also built for the British Army under the same program.

The gun should be 100% functional as it was built to be a fully operational Panther tank for the British Army. The gun was never disabled by draining the buffer fluid in the recuperator and fired, that was a war time practice since it wasn't used in action during the war.

The British Army returned the Panther to German ownership in the 1980's I believe. It was restored, complete with a faux Infra-Red scope and re-zimmerited using the original Maybach engine. There is no diesel engine in this one.

This video shows the tank turning it's turret. Pretty quiet and smooth:



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MBR... Thanks for that one. I never get tired of watching these things move.And about being in a Sherman,I think the phrase would be, Oh BLEEP where did THAT come from! Jeff T.

I checked, the Panter-G really is a post war batch

But Jagdpanter 234 is a known WWII vehicle of Schwere Panzerjäger Abteilung 654 that spend some time in France and came to Koblenz from Saumur.

The british post WWII Jagdpanter, quite similar to 234, is still in Bovington and one of her siblings, captured in 1944/45 is in London.

http://www.panther1944.de/de/sdkfz-171-pzkpfwg-panther/die-letzten-ihrer-art.html

Ah! I stand corrected then. I thought the Jagdpanther was the British captured one seen in the famous evaluation pictures of them driving on the Autobahn.

There are pictures in my reference books showing the Panther Ausf. G being evaluated against Comet tanks post-WWII.

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