Friday 28 February 2014

German Production Plans for 1945

I've covered Soviet production plans that were interrupted by the start of the war, so let's look at the opposite: German production plans that were interrupted by the war's end. This document was translated by someone rather distant from German military terminology, so some of it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Item number
Name
March
April
May
June
July
August
Monthly requirement
Note
365
Tiger II
45
50
65
70
80
80

500 more units planned after February
1st, 1945.
355
Panther
200
225
225
225
225
-

1341 more units planned after
February 1st, 1945, including 125 mountain Panthers.
356
Mountain Panther
25
25
25
25
25




351
PzIV
180
200
100
-
-
-

650 planned after February 1st, 1945.
355
StuG III
250
300
300
300
130
-

1480 units produced in total.
StuH 42
80
80
80
-
-
-

Only 274 StuH 42s are planned.
StuG IV
50
60
60
68
-
-

Production scaled back due to
bombing.

342
PzIV long (U)
180
200
200
200
150
150
150
150 tanks of this type per month in
the new economy plan.
PzV long (A)
-
-
-
-
-
-

No longer produced, production will
renew when the box (?) is produced for the long U.

350
Jagdpanzer 38
350
350
350
350
300
50
250
2100 units since February 1st,
1945.
Jagdpanzer 38(d)
-
-
10
50
80
120
Initial production.
Waffentrager 38(d)
-
-
-
5
10
20
100
It is not yet decided if the
Waffentrager will be built.

3 comments:

  1. Sry but what is Mountain Panther? The recovery vehicle?

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    1. Yes, the Bergepanther.

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    2. LSHMSFOAIDMT
      What an epic translation fail ;-D

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