page_title: List of Panzer V variants
section_title: Production models
hierarchical_section_title: List of Panzer V variants / Production models
caption_attribution_description: English: Bergepanther. On display at Saumur Général Estienne museum.
context_page_description: This is a list of Panzerkampfwagen V Panther variants, including prototypes, conversions and projected designs.
context_section_description: Data from:
  Ausf.D
  The first production series, (despite the designation), built by MAN, Daimler-Benz,  MNH and Henschel. 850 built between January to September 1943.
  Ausf.A
  Panther I  /  VK3002  /  (Sd.Kfz.171)
  The second production series, (despite the designation), built by MAN, Daimler-Benz, Demag and MNH. 2,000 built between August 1943 to May 1944.
  Ausf.G
  The third production series, (despite the designation), built by MAN, Daimler-Benz,  MNH. 3,126 built between March 1944 to April 1945.
  Panzerbefehlswagen mit 7.5 cm KwK42 L/70
  Panzerkampfwagen Panther (Sd.Kfz.171) (als Pz.Bef.Wg.)  /  Panzerbefehlswagen Panther Ausf. A (Sd.Kfz. 267)
  329 converted with extra radio equipment and reduced ammunition storage.
  Panzerbeobachtswagen Panther
  This artillery observation tank was converted from Panther Is by removing the main armament and fitting a dummy gun with a ball fitting for a machine gun on the blanked off turret front. 41 were converted late 1944 - early 1945.
  Jagdpanther (Sd.Kfz.173)
  Panzerjäger für 8.8cm PaK43 auf Fgst Panther I
  A tank destroyer based on the Panther chassis with a 8.8cm PaK43 L/71 fitted to a fixed superstructure in a limited traverse mounting. 392 built by MIAG and MNH from January 1944 to March 1945.
  Panzer-Bergegerät (Panther I) (Sd.Kfz.179)
  Bergepanther
  Armoured recovery vehicles using the Panther I chassis. 347 built or converted by Henschel, MAN and Demag.
caption: Bergepanther on display at Saumur armour museum
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