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Not really a discrete AT unit then, rather a combined arms task force. I think the Kampfgruppe system could build something like that. If they could find a way to mount a 120mm mortar on a Pz I chassis like the Panzerjäger I, they'd have as much punch as a 105mm howitzer round.Ideally you have a Forward Observer with a radio connection to the Divisional artillery, but I'd like the individual anti-tank companies to have their own organic fire support - just like infantry companies got during WWII in most armies. A section with two 80 mm mortars is cheap (you could get 20 80mm mortars for one 105mm howitzer), easy to command and supply and can instantly give sufficient firepower to have a tank unit button up. If you add a few GPMG for each ATG platoon (which was usual) your anti-tank company/bataljon is extremely potent in blocking any intrusion into the Divisional position.
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http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/CGSC/CARL/nafziger/939GXID.pdf
Looks like the standard 1939-43 division had an AT battalion with 18 LMGs and 36 AT guns attached to the division. The mortars aren't needed because they aren't a force to extend in front of an infantry regiment, they are the units to be sent out as extra support for the defense or offense.
For the regimental AT company, which would never get Hetzers, because that requires too many to be made to provide them all around and the PaK38 was used for (later the PAK 40 as they became available, and later still the PAW 600), while they also had an infantry gun company and various units of battalion mortars. I think adding any mortars to any AT unit within an infantry or panzer division is pointless in that case.
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