Panzer IV with 7.5cm KwK L/70 gun and Schmalturm turret 1/72 Scale UniModel 555

Panzerkampfwagen IV (PzKpfw IV or Pz-IV) - German medium tank during the Other Light War. Becoming the main and hired tank of the Wehrmacht. For the German army, the MAV is also the same value, like the T-34 for the SRSR and the M4 Sherman for the USA. The postyne fully armored and armored tank allowed it to be a good competitor.

The history of this tank began in 1934, if the Germans began to build their military vehicle. Versailles pleasing did not allow the mother to build and develop new types of tanks. It is obvious that such a camp was right for the Nimtsiv and did not rule. In order to improve the economic and political isolation, Nimechchina went to close contact with the Radian Union. Offenses to the country were known by those in which he was inspired by the "light spivtovaristvo" - Nimechchina took syrovine from the SRSR, and the SRSR - new technologies.

In addition, the SRSR has pressed polygons and experimental backwaters for the development of new technical solutions. Zakrema bіla Kazanі Bula opened a tank school, engineers and officers of the Wehrmacht together with the Radyansky Viysks worked on the development, preparation and testing of new tanks. The results brought PzKpfw I and PzKpfw II to light.

Ale and tanks looked like nothing more than at first. By that fate of 1934, robots were deployed on tanks of a larger size, as they became the main developments of the German tank troops. Tse PzKpfw III and PzKpfw IV. The first of them, by analogy with the British armored troops, planned to zastosovuvat like a cruising tank, assignments for deep maneuvers, and the other - like a tank I’ll break through and pidtrimki.