Zimmerit
Usually zimmerit technology ( coating is added to the tank skin to counteract the mine / magnetic bomb ) applied to the panzer panzer - heavyweight sort of Panther or Tiger . The exception is in the photo above which shows Panzerkampfwagen IV clad zimmerit ! This photo was taken at a railway station in Viborg , Denmark , 1944
December 18, 1944 : A Jagdpanzer IV/70 ( V ) of the SS - Panzerjäger - Abteilung 1 moved out of the main road and went into a muddy field in order to avoid the junk armored vehicles , light tanks and half - tracks of the 18th Cavalry Cavalry Group Squadron/14th were ambushed and destroyed by Kampfgruppe Hansen of the attack through Poteau Recht . The absence of zimmerit indicates that the vehicle was produced after mid- September 1944 , although the moving image footage of the same vehicle from Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr . 747 shows that he is still equipped by a horizontal cylinder exhaust the initial model which has been ordered to be replaced by a model Flammentöter vertical exhaust of pressurized fire since August 1944