World of Tanks Supertest: Aufklärungspanzer Panther Tier VII Premium Light Tank
2 min readThe Aufklärungspanzer Panther, a German Tier VII light tank, is coming to the closed Supertest today. This vehicle was previously available in the German Tech Tree, and its updated version will have some features in common with the old one. The Aufklärungspanzer Panther is quite large but has decent armour for a light tank.
The thickness of the frontal armour plates is 85 mm at most. The vehicle reaches speeds up to 55 km/h, and has a specific power of 22.3 h.p./t. The view range is 380 m, and the vehicle durability is 1,000 hit points. The vehicle is equipped with a 75 mm gun that causes 135 damage per shot. The gun has good stabilization, and its accuracy is 0.33. The aiming time is 1.6 s. Reloading takes 5.5 s. One of the vehicle’s more unusual features is that it has no HE shells. Only standard (157 mm of penetration) and special (205 mm of penetration) shells can be used.
The Aufklärungspanzer Panther embodies the idea of a heavy reconnaissance vehicle. Components of both medium and light tanks went into its design. Thanks to its mobility and good gun handling parameters, this vehicle can support medium tanks by both spotting and damaging enemies.
Vehicle History
“A recommendation by the Ministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion from 1942 calling for the Panther to be built as a reconnaissance vehicle along with the planned Leopard combat reconnaissance vehicle. The turret under consideration had originally been developed by Daimler-Benz for the 8-wheeled Panzerspähwagen ARK. With somewhat increased armour, it was to be used on both the Leopard and Panther reconnaissance vehicles.”
“The contract for the vehicle’s gun was awarded in January 1942 to the firms of Krupp and Rheinmetall. The requirements dictated the use of the 50mm KwK 39 L/60 barrel, but having a smaller design. A projected delivery was foreseen in the October/November 1942 timeframe. Neither project was pursued further.”
Source: Panther & Its Variants – Walter J. Spielberger
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Although I’m happy to see the Aufklärungspanther is making a comeback, I can’t help noticing that the new version seems actually considerably weaker than the original – it is slower, view range and especially DPM are much worse – and all this while the meta has moved on in the meantime due to constant power creep, and despite the fact that the tank was considered poor even back in the day (“Fail Panther”). I wonder what it is with Wargaming and German tanks.
We need this thing with the leopard turret and gun as stock module
We want the Derp.. Bring us the Derp
I mean… Back in the day it also fought tier 10 vehicles, but now it will only face up to tier 9… So makes sense that it’s slightly weaker than last time it was in the game…
Probs gonna be a long awaited reward vehicle
Don’t forget, they also teased us with another contender for “well deserved reward” – Super Chaffee.