Jaguar Jagdpanzer

"We are Jagdpanzer goddamnit, and we hate you."

– Anonymous Wermacht Jagdpanzer radio operator, Company of Heroes

A Jaguar 1 ...

... & A Jaguar 2

Boy, those Germans certainly like their turretless TDs (Tank Destroyers) don't they? The krauts still hadn't quite gotten over their enthusiasm for TDs when the Cold War rolled around and though they finally realized that guns were better mounted in tanks, the Germans had the bright idea of mounting ATGMs instead. Hence, the Raketenjagdpanzer 4 Jaguar, or just the Jaguar for those who don't care to try to pronounce a 10 syllable name.

In Team Yankee

Das Stats

Both versions of the Jaguar Jagdpanzer are quiet capable tank hunters in Team Yankee, though the difference between the two, both in how they are played and how they operate, is so minimal that they honestly don't deserve independent pages.

IRL

A pair of Austrian Jaguars on exercise

As you can imagine, after there experience in world war 2 with successful vehicles such as the Stug, Hetzer and Jagdpanzer, German designers did not completely reject the turret less tank destroyer the way most other nations did after the war. This is why in the cold war the West Germans developed the (not in team Yankee yet) Kanonenjagdpanzer which was armed with a Patton's 90mm cannon. However when the Soviets started to deploy T-64's and T-72's, the 90mm proved too light to be useful, which may go some way to explain why the Kanonen is AWOL in team yankee at this moment. To compensate for this deficiency the Raketenjagdpanzer 4 Jaguar was developed to mount the French developed HOT missile which was exponentially more powerful than the old 90mm.

However, now that the new Jaguar was in use, the Bundeswher was left with a bunch of the old Kanonenjagdpanzers that were now obsolete. Rather than scrap the lot, these vehicles were converted into Jaguar 2s by yanking out the 90mm and mounting the American made TOW missile system, which was less capable than the HOT missile, but required less specialized fire controls.