Service Data:
In Service: 1943 to 1945
Production Data:
Manufacturer: Rheinmetall-Borsig
Chassis No:
Number built: 1
Technical Data:
Type: Prototype Anti-Aircraft Vehicle
Crew: 5 men
Length: 8.86 m
Width: 3.4 m
Height: 2.95 m
Weight: 43,000 kg
Fuel Capacity: 730 liters
Engine: 1 �
Maybach
HL 230 P30 12 cylinder liquid cooled 60� Vee petrol engine
producing up to 700 hp at 3,000 rpm
Gearbox: 7 forward 1 reverse
Speed: road 46 km/h cross country km/h
Range: road 200 km cross country km
Armament:
1 ×
3.7
cm Flak 43
2 ×
7.92
mm MG 34 machine guns
Ammunition:
main 79 rounds
secondary 5,100 rounds
Armour: 16 mm to 100 mm
Electronics: FuG 5
Operators: Heer
Variants:
3.7 cm Flakzwilling Coelian
Bergepanther
Gw Panther für
sFH 18/4 (Sf)
Jagdpanther
Jagdpanther Starr
Panther I Ausf. A
Panther I Ausf. D
Panther I Ausf. F
Panther I Ausf. G
Panther II
Panzerbefehlswagen
Panzerbeobachtungswagen
V
Sturmpanther
VK3002(DB) Panzerkampfwagen
V
Other: Prototype
Vehicles
Articles:
History:
The Flakzwilling 3.7 cm Panther (Coelian) or Flakzwilling
3.7 cm Panzerkampfwagen Panther (Coelian) or abbreviated to
Fla.Pz. Panther (Coelian) was a self-propelled anti-aircraft
gun designed by
Rheinmetall-Borsig
during the Second World War for the Wehrmacht. It was intended
to be armed with two
3.7
cm Flak 43 gun in a fully enclosed, rotating turret on
the hull of a Panther but wasn't built before the end of the
World War II.
However the The Flakzwilling 3.7 cm Panther (Coelian) never
reached production only a wooden mockup was ever completed.
Gallery:
Heer Comments
Sources:
German Military Vehicles.
ISBN-10: 087349783X
Armoured Fighting Vehicles of Germany World War II.
ISBN-10: 0214203077
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World Two.
ISBN-10: 1854095188
For a complete list of
sources
