Only a full scale wooden mockup of the weaponry and turret, mounted on a full metal Panther chassis was ever made of this machine. Whilst the vehicle was fully designed and proposed, due to the wartime situation no full prototype or production model was ever created. Previously it occupied the Rank V spot before switching places with the more advantageous and deadly Kugelblitz in game and has since been the Rank IV German SPAAG. The Flakpanzer 341 or “Coelian” as it originally was is a German SPAAG design based on the Panther chassis. As such, with the advent of the Leopard family as well as the incoming M48A2 C in 1.91, the Panther II will be retired to a collectable vehicle for all who owned it before the update.

The version we have in game is not the Panther II as it historically should be. All of which are historical proposals or actually built, but not on the real Panther II.

Panther II in War Thunder draws upon many historical Panther projects and developments, such as the Panther II chassis that was built but is also armed the advanced Schmalturm turret design as well as incorporating plans to mount an 8.8cm on a Panther and several other proposals such as engine improvements and IR technology. Here is War Thunder’s official comment on these vehicles:

As I am sure you notice, these designs are either blueprint only, or never went beyond the prototype stage. For those of you who have not heard of this, it has been the dev teams intention to make the German Ground Forces a bit more historical, taking particular issues with the Maus, Tiger II (105), Panther II and the Flakpanzer 341.

Hello everyone, today we have been given an insight into the planned German Ground Forces tech tree shuffle that was announced late last year.

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