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Dicker Max - Tank-Hunter

By: Battlefront Miniatures

Type: Miniatures Pack

Product Line: Flames of War - WWII - German - Tanks

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Last Stocked on 4/2/2019

Product Info

Title
Dicker Max - Tank-Hunter
Sub-category
Publish Year
2013
NKG Part #
2147485705
MFG. Part #
BFMGE115
Type
Miniatures Pack

Description

While still fighting in Poland in September 1939, the German High Command looked ahead to the coming battle with France and ordered a vehicle for use against the fortifications of the Maginot Line. In response Krupp set about designing a self-propelled 10.5cm K18 long-range gun based on a Panzer IV tank chassis.

The new vehicle’s rotund profile quickly gained it the nickname ‘Dicker Max’ (‘Fat Max’). On 31 March 1941 Krupp-Gruson presented the first of two prototypes designated 10.5cm K18 auf Panzer Selbstfahrlafette IVa (10.5cm K18 on Armoured Self-propelled Mount IVa) to Hitler.

With France defeated, Hitler ordered that this vehicle be developed into a heavy Panzerjager (tank-hunter) capable of destroying the anticipated British and Soviet super-heavy tanks. Production of the 10.5cm K18 auf Panzer Selbstfahrlafette IVa was planned to start in spring 1942, but was cancelled in favor of other vehicles.

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