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A special Panzerkommission was sent to the front in order to obtain first hand knowledge and to study captured examples.

This project was cancelled in May 1940 and Krupp began detailed designs on a new tank in the 20 ton class.ĭue to engineers at both Daimler-Benz and Krupp favoring leaf spring suspension and being opposed to torsion bar suspension the firm of MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg – Machine Works of Augsburg and Nürnberg) was pulled into the competition to design a new tank in the 20 ton class with torsion bar suspension.ĭuring operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, that started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, German forces would come to encounter two new Soviet tanks, the medium T-34 and the heavy KV-1, for the first time. In October 1939, Daimler-Benz began to design their own tank after receiving permission to prepare designs without outside interference.Īt the begininng of the war in September 1939, the firm of Krupp embarked on designing an improved Pz. The first contract for a detailed design was given to Daimler-Benz. The letters ‘VK’ are an abbreviation for ‘Vollketten’ (fully tracked), the 20 followed for the weight class in tons, and the 01 for the first model in the series.

This new series of tanks were designated as the VK 20.01. Work on a replacement tank for the Panzer III and Panzer IV already began in 1938.

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