Growl of the Panther Tank

[Hagen]

Originally Posted by Pirate-Drakk

You mean the one on the right with the special splay antennae?

Yes, thats what I thought anyway. It isn't?

[LAH 1 SS]

yeh your right hagen the one on the right does have the command tank arial for the fu8 radio the fu5 radio was usually on the turret roof and the fu7 was found in the normal position the fu8 radio was often found on the rear deck like the king tiger on a panther interesting place to have it mounted you cant see the rear deck to confirm if it is an actual command panther

[LAH 1 SS]

here is a colour plate of a well known panther a from LAH this is a command panther



and a photo of the rear deck showing the fu7 and fu8 posistion and turret roof showing the fu5 posistion of a real panther a





this arraingment was the same through the panther models

[Hagen]

Thanks for the pointers on the radios and their aerials LAH.

[LAH 1 SS]

no problem hagen i have the radios going round my head at the moment im trying to build a model command tiger and make it accurate so its all there

[McCoy]

German radios is a veritable jungle as can be seen in this table.

http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/guides/ge..._equipment.htm

[LAH 1 SS]

mccoy that was really great info really great will use that one trust me

[cyberia]

Not the clearest of photos, but a load of mostly Panthers being transported to the front

[LAH 1 SS]

in my move of photo bucket these two photos got moved here they are

[cyberia]

An either knocked out or simply abandoned Panther G