Dicker Max Tank-Hunter

SKU: BF-GE115(SO)
GTIN: 9420020221987
Category: Tank Hunters & Others

10,92 €

incl. 19% VAT , plus

Old price: 11,50 €

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Delivery time: 1 Workdays (Other countries)

Description

Dicker Max Tank-hunter
(GE115)
includes one Dicker Max Tank-hunter.

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 favour of other vehicles. Dicker Max is first and foremost a gun-carrier and the gun it carried was the long-range Rheinmetall s 10.5cm K18 artillery piece fitted with a muzzle break. This gun weapon can penetrate 111mm of armour at a 30 degree slope at 2000 meters, 30% more than the famous 8.8cm FlaK18 anti-aircraft gun! Such a slow gun is usually rather slow-firing, but with two loaders and ammunition ready to hand, it gives a good account of itself.

15mm, resin/metal
Battlefront Miniatures