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===Versi Terakhir Ausf. H dan Ausf. J ===
Pada 26 May 1941, se-minggu sebelum [[Operasi Barbarossa]], sesuai dengan keputusan [[Adolf Hitler]] untuk meng-upgrade tank tercintanya ini maka Krupp dipilih sebagai pemroduksinya dan sebulan setelah dimulainya [[Operasi Barbarossa]] versi Ausf, H di mulai produksi dengan Schürzen ( Lapis Baja Tambahan ) dan dengan senjata utama yang di perpanjang dan juga armor lapis baja yang di tebalkan, dan versi terakhir nya adalah Panzer IV Ausf. J yang di pertebal armornya di senjata utama maupun di bagian badan tank nya. Panzer IV Ausf. J ini merupakan versi terakhir karena digantikan oleh [[Tiger I]].
==Production==
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|+Panzer IV production by year<ref name="Panzer Tracts 23" />
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! Date
! Number of Vehicles
! Variant (''Ausführung'' or ''Ausf.'')
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| 1937–1939
| 262
| A – D
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| 1940
| 290 (-24)
| D, E
|-
| 1941
| 480 (+17)
| E, F
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| 1942
| 994
| F, G
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| 1943
| 2,983
| G, H
|-
| 1944
| 3,125
| H, J
|-
| 1945
| ~435
| J
|-
| '''Total'''
| ~8,569
| A - J
|}
The Panzer IV was originally intended to be used only on a limited scale, so initially Krupp was its sole manufacturer. Prior to the Polish campaign, only 217 Panzer IVs were produced: 35 Ausf. A; 42 Ausf. B; and 140 Ausf. C; in 1941 production was extended to [[Vomag]] (located in the city of [[Plauen]]) and the [[Steyr-Daimler-Puch|Nibelungenwerke]] in the Austrian city of St. Valentin.<ref name="Panzer Tracts 23" />
In 1941, an average of 39 tanks per month were built; this rose to 83 in 1942, 252 in 1943, and 300 in 1944. However, in December 1943, Krupp's factory was diverted to manufacture the [[Sturmgeschütz IV]] and, in the spring of 1944, the Vomag factory began production of the [[Jagdpanzer IV]], leaving the Nibelungenwerke as the only plant still assembling the Panzer IV.<ref name=Spielberger72>Spielberger (1972), p. 72</ref> With the slow collapse of German industry under pressure from Allied air and ground offensives—in October 1944 the Nibelungenwerke factory was severely damaged during a bombing raid—by March and April 1945, production had fallen to pre-1942 levels, with only around 55 tanks per month coming off the assembly lines.<ref>Doyle & Jentz (2001), p. 16</ref>
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