Panzer IV - under this name this combat vehicle was almost unknown to the soldiers and commanders of the Red Army. And even now, 60 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the combination of the German words “Panzer Fir” causes bewilderment among many. Both then and now, this tank is better known under the “Russified” name T-IV, which is not used anywhere outside our country. Pz.IV is the only German tank that was in mass production throughout the Second World War and became the most popular tank of the Wehrmacht. Its popularity among German tankers was comparable to the popularity of the T-34 among ours and the Sherman among the allies. Well-designed and extremely reliable in operation, this combat vehicle was, in the full sense of the word, the “workhorse” of the Panzerwaffe.