[central_va]

The Panzer Mk IV is a solid tank. Just as good as contemporary tanks it fought against.

It also made jagdpanther.

[Yo-Yo]

Your first image is not of a Mark IV, it is of a Tiger.

[Yo-Yo]

Nope, I’m wrong and you’re right. That is a Panzer Mark IV.

[FreedomPoster]

You are correct, that is a later-model Pzkw IV in the first pic.

However, that is *not* a Jagdpanther in your second picture, it is a Jagdpanzer IV.

BTW, if you’ve never read the details of how Audie Murphy won the Congressional Medal of Honor, you should do so. Fundamentally, he held off a platoon of Jagdpanthers with a .50 BMG from the back of a burning M10. The “heavy tanks” in this account were Jagdpanthers:

http://www.audiemurphy.com/documents/doc010/PFCAbramski_27Feb45.pdf

I walked that ground in September of 2016.