Forces of Valor 80057 1:32 GERMAN PANZER IV AUSF. F

Just one month prior to the commencement of "Operation Typhoon" (the German assault on Moscow) the Waffenamt was scheduled to begin installing the long-barreled 7.5 cm KwK gun on its new Mark IV Ausf. G tanks. However, when the Wehrmacht encountered the superior Russian KV-1 and T-34 tanks during the summer campaigning season, a decision was made to mount the 7.5 cm KwK40 L/43 gun onto as many existing Mark IVs as possible. Since the new gun fired larger rounds than the short-barreled gun mounted on the F1 tanks, ammunition storage capacity had to be increased and the crew compartment had to be re-arranged to accommodate the modifications.

Forces of Valor® 1:32 scale replica is of a German Panzer IV Ausf. F medium tank which saw action on the eastern front with an unidentified unit during1943.