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The complexity of the Tiger tank design was also a issue, all of the extra parts in the gear box, suspension system, engine system, plus the size of the gun made the tank over weight and difficult to manufacture.
Transporting the Tiger Tank to the battlefield was a slow process as well, the tank required a sperate set of narrow transport tracks that required the outer road wheels to be removed and reattached after the tank was transported to the front by train. Then the crew had to take the time to prep the tank for battle by reattaching the wheels and combat tracks before battle. Still, you can't take anything away from how effective the Tiger I was, the Wermacht still depended on it through out the war. But the Panther is still a better tank hands down, it's the first ancestor of the mondern main battle tank. |
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mine's bigger than yours...
Having the mind set of a five year old, I thought id jump straight into the stupid end of the pool with this the p1500 ratte by Krupp. For those unfamiliar it was a proposed super tank weighing in at 1500 tons carrying 2 800mm main guns, several 128mm secondary guns and a selection of 20 and 30 mm flak guns for self defense. It was to be powered by either 2x8000hp man ship engines or 8x2000hp MAN u-boat engines. By anybodies standards this thing was as big as a ship and probably would have pushed materials technology beyond even the Nazis abilities, but god you'd have papped your self if something twice the height of a maus super tank came rumbling over the hill.
As far as real tanks go, Ive always had a soft spot for the Swedish s-tank. Designed as a defensive tank to stop the pessky russkies from rolling into IKEA land, it had a fixed 105mm gun with an auto loader and to aim it the whole hull was tilted up or down on adjustable suspension or turned left or right on its tracks but it had a total height nearly half that of a conventional tank allowing a very low profile when dug in. Also those vertical grills along the front of the hull are a Swedish version of Kremlin Armour designed to stop AT missiles. Ive resisted the temptation to put a pick of my volvo up as a tank. |
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Sorry, unfortunately, i have no favorite tank. |
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Very few nations can get tank design right first time... particularly when they're in the middle of a war! |
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From The Army Rumour service website's "ARRSEpedia" entry: "Gucci Kit In the 1943 manual which came with the Tiger, the following story must have done much to raise morale. During a 6 hour combat, a Tiger was hit 227 times, 14 of those 52mm, 11 were 76.2mm. Not one hit penetrated. Its bearings and joints were shot up, 2 axles didn't work, several AT rounds had hit the tracks, it had driven over 3 mines and it STILL continued on for another 60km. Gucci kit indeed!" |
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Have you guys ever played World of Tanks. The most fun game ever on two tracks! I love tanks too! My faves are the M103 and the Tiger. Shermans are great tanks too!
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