removed because gaijin dont want paper tanks, but keep adding "OBJ" to russia

Originally posted by Avenger199:

where did the Panther II go I would love to have it what happened to it?

Removed many years ago.
Not returning.

why?

Originally posted by Avenger199:

why?

https://warthunder.com/en/news/6317-development-changes-and-optimization-in-the-german-tech-tree-en

Originally posted by Avenger199:

why?

wasnt real

Originally posted by Avenger199:

why?

See Lucas Stocki's comment.

It never existed beyond blue prints and the in-game breech model was incorrect.

The pictures you sometimes see online posted of an irl Panther II is actually just a hull prototype that the US put a Panther G turret on to so it'd look nicer in a museum.

Gaijin perfers, with some contentious exceptions, for tanks in War Thunder to have at least one functioning prototype.

Gaijin dumb even WOT Blitz had the Panther II everyone who knows anything about WWII Germany knows about it and it's my dad's favorite tank how stupid and yet they keep with the IS-7 which also was a sort of concept vehicle how stupid

Originally posted by Velesianus:

Originally posted by Avenger199:

why?

See Lucas Stocki's comment.

It never existed beyond blue prints and the in-game breech model was incorrect.

The pictures you sometimes see online posted of an irl Panther II is actually just a hull prototype that the US put a Panther G turret on to so it'd look nicer in a museum.

Gaijin perfers, with some contentious exceptions, for tanks in War Thunder to have at least one functioning prototype.

how do they know that the breech model was incorrect then?

Originally posted by Avenger199:

Originally posted by Velesianus:

See Lucas Stocki's comment.

It never existed beyond blue prints and the in-game breech model was incorrect.

The pictures you sometimes see online posted of an irl Panther II is actually just a hull prototype that the US put a Panther G turret on to so it'd look nicer in a museum.

Gaijin perfers, with some contentious exceptions, for tanks in War Thunder to have at least one functioning prototype.

how do they know that the breech model was incorrect then?

couse in exray the breach was merged with the gunner or commander so everytime it would fire if it was real that person would die. U can look up old exrays and see how wonky the model looked for it,

Originally posted by Avenger199:

Gaijin dumb even WOT Blitz had the Panther II everyone who knows anything about WWII Germany knows about it and it's my dad's favorite tank how stupid and yet they keep with the IS-7 which also was a sort of concept vehicle how stupid

WoT has plenty of purely fantasy vehicles.


The Panther II was never created. The IS-7 exists today.

similar reason the tiger 2 10.5cm varient was taken out

Originally posted by j.yellow28:

Originally posted by Avenger199:

how do they know that the breech model was incorrect then?

couse in exray the breach was merged with the gunner or commander so everytime it would fire if it was real that person would die. U can look up old exrays and see how wonky the model looked for it,

Its not even just that, while yes the breach of the 88mm gun was shrunk ingame to impossibly small size to fit inside the turret thats not even close to the worst of it

in reality the panther 2 program never even completed its design, they built a hull and had an idea for a shmalturm for it but the program was cancelled before it was even designed, so doesn't even qualify as paper

the turret it has ingame is based on the panther f turret which despite what people might think from the names actually came after the panther 2 was already cancelled

nevermind that the gun it would have got most likely would have been a 75mm like other panthers rather than the 88mm of the tiger II

there was a later proposal for an 88mm gun in a panther but that never even reached a paper design either, engineers couldnt even agree on how to make it fit in a panther turret with ideas like a bulbous extension to the turret and larger turret ring thrown around but barely progressed past napkin sketches

if the panther 2 design had ever been completed most likely it would have been the panther 2 hull with something very similar to the panther f turret and gun, but if we want to be historical the only turret it was ever actually fit with was the panther G turret it is currently mounted with for display

ok ok I get it thx

Originally posted by j.yellow28:

similar reason the tiger 2 10.5cm varient was taken out

but Creating a tank inside the battle pass with 2 guns 105mm for Russia -.- same tier I would say if the are updating the Models of the Tiger 2 variants they can bring this tank also back since there are nowdays even more cold war ♥♥♥♥ inside than anyting else -.-

Alongside 10.5 tiger and our lovely panther spaa got removed a long time ago