"Hetzer" APARTMENT, NATURAL SCIENCES, PROFESSIONS AND PRODUCTS Name: Light Tank Fighter Hetzer / 'Hetzer'. Small but Scary Beast Author: M. Svirin Publisher: Exprint / Range Year: 2004 / 2001 Pages: 49 + 52 Format: PDF Size: 9 + 7.5 MB ISBN: 5-94038-044-1 / 1680-0860 Quality: Medium Series or Issue: Armor Fund / Combat No2. Hetzer appeared as a result of another program to create a light tank destroyer designed to support infantry, as well as action in separate units of tank destroyers, as a supplement to the existing StuG III and StuG IV systems. In March 1943. Colonel General Guderian instructed to create a tank destroyer based on the Pz. tank Kpfw 38 (t), fully armored, with a low silhouette, and armed with a cannon capable of fighting enemy tanks at distances of at least 800 m. The reason for the appearance of this order was the decrease in the rate of production of German self-propelled guns produced in German enterprises, while the territory of Czechoslovakia did not fully experience the full weight of Allied air strikes. Hetzers were widely used in the battles of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, as well as during the Ardennes offensive of the German army. Thanks to the rational angles of the tilt of the armor, low silhouette, Hetzer was an excellent example of an anti-tank gun capable of fighting from ambushes, quickly changing position. However, his gun was clearly inferior to the guns of the T-34-85 and IS, which made it impossible to use the Hetzers in artillery duels over long distances - Hetzer was an ideal melee weapon. Hetzer's design was so successful that after the war, about 250 Hetzers under the ST-1 brand were in service with the Czechoslovak army, and 150 cars were produced for Switzerland and operated there until the late 60s under the G-13 brand. As bonus:Das Waffen-Arsenal. Hetzer Jg. Pz 38 (t) und G-13 . Osprey New Vanguard No36. Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer 1944-1945 85 1 2 3 4 5