My fav tank & design: Panther I Ausf. G Just look at that nice ass!!! |
And here we see my 1/72 model replicating the Bovington, England Panther I painted the main exhaust pipes navy grey |
According to this German page:
Served to reduce / prevent the flames
from the exhaust in the engine part-load range. were built from 1944 on Panther IG, and would probably get all 1945 German tanks ... ... were shown above in the production of Tiger III S but again not just available....
That's a google translation
I ran, "auspuff end topf mit flammen dämpfer" through http://www.microsofttranslator.com, and it came back with:
"exhaust end pot with flame shock"
I had always -- it looks like, wrongly assumed -- that it some how squelched smoke, so as not to reveal the tank as easily and/or, a camo effect.
Was this the purpose of preventing flames? To prevent detection? Did it also hinder smoke? Was it so the tank could not be seen at night?
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