Hornby HuntingTank 38 ton agitator, Late Version

The Jagdpanzer 38(t) (Sd.Kfz. 138/2), later known as Hetzer ("baiter"), was a German light tank destroyer of the Second World War based on a modified Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) chassis. The project was inspired by the Romanian "Mareşal" tank destroyer. The name Hetzer was not commonly used for this vehicle at the time; it was the designation for a related prototype, the E-10. The Škoda factory briefly confused the two names in its documentation, and the very first unit equipped with the vehicle applied the incorrect name for a few weeks until the matter was clarified.

However, there exists a memorandum from Heinz Guderian to Hitler claiming that an unofficial name, Hetzer, had spontaneously been coined by the troops. Post-war historians, basing their works on this statement, made the name popular, although the vehicle was never referred to as such in official documents.