[elcid1970]

I had read that it was the Maybach automatic transmission which greatly improved tank manueverability.

Maybach was an auto manufacturer too, tho.

[Snickering Hound]

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/pz3.htm#panzer4

Those vehicles are worth ALOT of money these days.

Restoring them is a millionaires hobby. A very expensive hobby.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Maybach.

A rather Spartan means of conveyance, no?

[Last Dakotan]

What’s the point of stationary guns in the 21st century?

[rmlew]

Why doesn’t Bulgaria sell these and replace them with T-54 or T-55s?

[Bringbackthedraft]

Want to the old Mark IV in action? http://www.stage6.com/WORLD-WAR-TWO-HISTORY-WAR/video/1986490/Panzer-IV-Heavy-Tank

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Free Republic Treadhead Ping

[henkster]

As late as the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Syrians were still operating some PzIV’s. Oddly enough, the Israelis were using some Shermans up-gunned with some 90mm’s.

[Squantos]

Archy fess em up !..........;o)

[04-Bravo]

I had no idea there were still any Panzer IV’s in service.

[Bringbackthedraft]

This is not surprising. The soviet Block had over 55,000 tanks. Unlike the USA and it allies, the Soviets did not melt down old tanks and make new ones. They kept the old ones in storage. During the Cold War they used old tanks like pill boxes around areas like ammunition storage depots, where they dug them into the ground up to their turrents.

[FreedomHammer]

[ARE SOLE]

An interior shot of Maybach model owned by R. Limbaugh.