43M Turán III

It was based on the 41M Turán II medium tank but was equipped with a significantly larger turret and a much more powerful long-barreled 75 mm gun.

[3] Though the Turán I and II had not yet seen combat,[4] in February 1943 the General Staff of the Honvédség decided it was necessary to begin a modernisation program to improve the tanks.

[5] In April 1943 the Hungarian General Staff debated whether to build the Turán III or to obtain the license to produce the long barrelled Panzer IV.

Major General Zoltan Harmos asserted that the Panzer IV was not superior enough to the planned Turán III to be worth the price the Germans would ask for the production license.

However, this was most likely circumvented in the case of the 44M Tas' development..[10] The Hungarian tank driver József Czimmermann stated that there were several Turan III in the 2nd Armoured Division during the fighting near the Ipoly in late 1944.