The Sd.Kfz. 234 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 234, Special Purpose Vehicle 234), was a family of armoured cars designed and built in Germany during World War II. The vehicles were lightly armoured, armed with a 20, 50 or 75 mm main gun, and powered by a Tatra V12 diesel engine. The Sd.Kfz. 234 broadly resembles the appearance of Sd.Kfz. 231 (8 rad).

The Mark I entered service into World War I on August 1916. It was first used on the morning of September 15th, 1916 during the battle of Flers-Courcelette, which was a part of the Sommes Offensive. With the new Exception of Mark II And Mark III, followed by a largely similar Mark IV. The Mark IV was used on a mass scale for that time. 460 tanks in the battle for Cambrai in November 1917. The later Mark V had better transmission, entering service in the middle of 1918. More than two thousand of these tanks were manufactured. This was discontinued at the end of WWI.

The Jagdtiger (“Hunting Tiger”; officially designated Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B^{[citation needed]}) is a German casemate-type heavy tank destroyer (Jagdpanzer) of World War II. It was built upon the slightly lengthened chassis of a Tiger II. Its ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 186.

The 72-tonne Jagdtiger was the heaviest armored fighting vehicle (AFV) used operationally by any nation in WWII and the heaviest combat vehicle of any type to be produced during the conflict. it was armed with a 12.8 cm Pak 44 L/55 main gun which could out-range and defeat any AFV fielded by the Allied forces.

It saw brief service in small numbers from late 1944 until the end of the war on both the Western and Eastern Front. Although 150 were ordered, only around 80 were produced. Due to an excessive weight and an underpowered drivetrain system, the Jagdtiger was plagued with mobility and mechanical problems. Three Jagdtigers survive in museums.