Tanks!!

[deefer]

I need to cool this tiger love in down a little. The only things the tiger had going for it where its 88mm gun derived from an anti aircraft gun and its massive frontal Armour. Its engine was underpowered and its transmission was chronically weak and prone to failure, I once read a story that said Jewish slave labour, having heard the problems the tigers caused the allies, often broke odd teeth in the gearboxes meaning the tanks would roll for a while until broken teeth met then stopping the tank dead. It certainty had the advantage over most allied tanks early on but the British 17 pounder AT gun could kill a tiger head on at any range you pleased. Probably the most potent of the German tanks was not the panther but its gt3 version sister the jagdpanther, lower, Armour almost as thick as a tiger's and fitted with a fixed mounting of the tigers 88mm gun instead of the original 75mm but much more maneuverable it was a hunter killer in the proper sense.